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PETSAMO SEIZED
BY SOVIET ARMY
Battle Nazi Tanks Thrown
Across Invasion Route
To Austria

LONDON, Monday, Oct. 16.-(P
Russian troops captured the Arc.
tic port of Petsamo yesterday
fought their way deeper inside tn,
Yugoslav capital of Belgrade,
and On the plains of captivating
Hungary battled against hundreds
of German tanks hurled across
the invasion route to Austria, 15C
miles beyond.
Moscow was silent On Budapest
official announcement that Hung
airy, last big Axis satellite ma
ton, had asked the Allies for an
armistice. Soviet communicates TO,
days have not mentioned the Hun.
garian sector-the usual procedure
during negotiations.
Nor did the Russian bulletin
mention the battle for Belgrade
but Berlin said Soviet troops and
Marshal Tito's Yugoslav partisans
had fought their way into the cen.
ter of the city after reaching its
outskirts Saturday. A late Moscow
broadcast also said that the pup
pet government under Field Mar
shall Milan Medic had fled along
with the German regime.
Berlin implied that other Soviet
troops had crossed into German
east Prussia on 27-mile front
in Memel territory, but Moscow
did not announce any operations
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LEGION CIRCUS
OPENS TONIGHT
Hewlett And Currin Will
Participate In Opening
Ceremony.

Preparations for the opening OF
the American Legion Thrill cir
Gus at Legion stadium tonight at
7 O'Clock were reported complet-
ed yesterday by the committee in
charge with prospects of the week
long event. from which the Lee
giofl's home fund will benefit, be-
ing the most successful of its type
staged here in recent years.
The opening ceremony will in
clude cutting of silk ribbon
across the main entrance to the
grounds by Addison Hewlett,
chairman of the county commits
sioners, and Garland Currin, Will
mington mayor protein.
Gates to the stadium will be
opened at the same hour and at
8 o'clock hte grandstand perform
ance will start with large num-
Der of circus acts being presented.
Tuesday night will be Liberation
Night in honor of the liberation
of Athens, the Greek capital and
the nights program will be dedi-
Gated to the brave Greeks who
fought for the freedom of their
country. John H. Marks, who owns
the Marks Shows, one of the mid
way organizations, is chairman OF
the nations Greek relief outdoor
Amusement division organization
A special performance has beer
arranged by Tom B. Hughes, chair
man of the Legion committee, fol
the employees on the Swing shit1
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CANADIANS GAIN
ON ITALIAN Line
British Soldiers Advance
To Road Junction West
OF Montana.

ROME, Oct. 15.-R-Canadian
troops of the Eighth Army chop
ped out additional gains today
against strong German resistance
in the fighting along the princi-
pal highway between Bologna and
Rimini fronting Italy's valley of
the Pc.
Allied headquarters reports
placed the Canadians at a point
south of the smalk village of Bull
garia between three and four
miles from Cessna, an important
town along the ancient highway
the Via Enilia-17 miles north
west of the Adriatic port Of Aim
mi.
British troops south of the high
way found rough going in the
mountainous area, but reached
the road junction of Carpineta on
a ridge west of Montana after
an advance of 1000 yards, then
pushed ahead. About 70 prison
ers were taken.
On the Fifth Army front Amer
lean troops advanced across the
highway between Castel Del Rio
and Castel San Pietro east of
Monterenzio, while to the west
other American forces remained
heavily engaged in the Livergna-
no area on highway IS, about ten
miles south of Bologna. Castel
San Pietrc is IA miles from Bolog-
ma on the Rimini-Bologna high
way.
Farther west Mount Stance was
recaptured by South African
troops after several days of fight
ing, and they pushed on toward
Grizzana, a town On lateral
road 81 miles southwest Of Bolog-
ma.
More Germans were nabbed in
this ara, hiking the prisoners to-
tai for the Fifth Army since Sep.
TENDER 10 TO 1900.
Reconnaissance disclosed addi.
tional German reinforcements in
the vicinity of Vergato, about four
miles northwest of Grizzana on
highway 81, another main route
to Bologna.
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DATE NOT GIVEN
Suffered Brain Conclusion
And Other Injuries In
Auto Accident.
BY JUDSON o'QUINN-

LONDON, Oct. Is. Up The
death of Field Marshal Erwin
Ronmel, who as commander Of
the German Afrika Korps drove
the British to the gates of Alex
antria before the tide of battle
turned at Ell Alamean in October,
1884, was announced tonight by
DNB the official German news
agency.
The Berlin broadcast said Rom
mel had "died Of his wounds" but
did not say how he was wounded
or when he died. DNB said Hit er
had ordered a state funeral for the
crafty German field commander.
Allied field dispatches first re-
ported rulnors that he was dead
on July 80 and the next day dis
patches quoted Nazi prisoners ana
French civilians as saying he died
of wounds suffered when his car
was strafel. German news and
propaganda agencies denied re-
ports of his death at the time put
admitted he had suffered a brain
conclusion and other injuries in
an automobile accident caused by
Allied strafing planes on the Nor
mandy battlefront July II.
Rornmel became known as the
desert fox" during the African
campaigns and his Afrika Korps
in the summer Of 1912 threaten
ed to cut its way to the Suez
Canal.
The British under then Gen. Sir
Bernard L. Montgomery stalled the
German offensive on the approach
es to Alexandria, and later mount-
ed a counteroffensive which end
ed in the destruction OF Rommel $
forces in Tunisia.
Rommelawas ground commander
trort;nued on Page Two; Col. ~
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MILITARY FARLEY
HELD AT MOSCOW
Churchill And Stain Talk
With Outstanding AL
lied Army Chiefs.

MOSCOW, Oct. 49, |R The
MOSCOW conference turned in the
direction of solid military matters
Today as the Polish question near
ca Its final phase in an atmos-
phere Of hopefulness.
Prime Minister Churchill and
Mafshall Stain met with Mai.
Gen J. Russell Deane, chief of
me United States military mission
10 the Soviet Union, 1t. Gen. Bro
caS Burrows, chief of the British
military mission, Field Mar
saall Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, chief
81 the British Imperial staff, and
zen na Sir Hastings Ismay, the
rflme Minister'S chief of staff. in
an hours-long conference.
Marshall Stain represented the
a nea Army at the military talks,
which it is understood were broad
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Hungary Asks
Peace, Naziis
Take Capt.
Petition For ArmistfS
With Allies Broadcast
At Budapest.
HORTHY SEIZED
Nazi Party Reported To
Have Taken Control
OF The Country.
HORTHY SEIZED
By RICHARD KAsIsCHKE

LONDON, Oct. 15.-tREThe Hun
garian government of Admira]
Nicholas Horthy sued for peace
tonight, but as Russian armies
drove across the country's central
plains toward Budapest the Ger
mans and pro-German elements
apparently seized the capital.
The petition for an armistice with
the Allies was broadcast by the
Budapest radio early this evening
in an order of the day signed by
Regent Horthy.
Then the Hungarian Nazis-pre-
sumably aided by German SIS di-
visions rushed to Budapest from
Vienna-took over the radio. They
called for the elimination of the
towards and betrayers" and urged
the Hungarian army and home
front to fight on beside Germany.
Horthy Taken To Germany
Horthy, according to a report
broadcast by the radio at Lille,
France, was. seized by the Ges-
tapo and taken to Germany.
Late tonight a broadcast from
Budapest announced that the Hun
garian Nazi party headed by
Ferec Szalasi had taken control
of the country and taken matters
in hand to eliminate traitors at all
cost. The most ruthless measures
will be taken against those disobey-
ing orders-including the death
penalty:
The broadcast declared that
"Horthy's attempted treachery was
frustrated at the last minute" and
that the Hungarian Nazi regime
had asked the German army to
protect 1.-The faithful Hungarian
population Also broadcast was
ans"order of the day by sSzalasi
charging Horthy with selling out
the country to "bolshevism.'
Ankara broadcasts said the Ges-
tapo was making mass arrests in
Budapest.
Budapest radios 10 p. m. broad
cast indicated the Nazis were in
control at least of the radio sta
ton. It broadcast only the Ger
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La Guardia Praises
Rooseuelt's Record


CHICAGO, Oct. 15.-CR-Mayor
Fiorello La Guardia Of New York
asserted today that President
Roosevelt has, ''won one war
against depression, was leading a
second to victory, and had fought
a s'few battles of a third war for
justice and peace"
Speaking to a Democratic rally
in the Coliseum, La Guardia SAID
"When the history of this war
is written by men and women with
a more distant perspective it will
be shown that the one man VINO
did everything constitutionally pos
sible to make the best of bad sit
uation was President Roosevelt.
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NaziiForces
Retreat North
From Greece
Allied Minesweepers Be-
gin Clearing Aegean
For Operations.
CREEKS AID ALLIES
British Planes Shoot Up
Transports And Trains
Near Larissa.
pr ROLAND NORG.' ARD

ROME, Oct. 15.-P)-German
+roons we're reported fleeing north
. sOu from Greece today as Allied
, vine began freeing the
i anaean for naval operations and
RAJ warplanes and U. S. trans
norts began using at least one air
p p in Athens, liberated capital OF
t n gallant Hellenic nation.
The comparatively few Nazis re-
naming in Greece were heading
FIR Yugoslavia as fast as limited
transport facilities and Allied aerl-
al attack permitted.
Close on their heels came the
forces of liberation - British sea-
horne units, Greek patriots who
hurled their factional differences
and Joined in the immediate job
Of ousting the hated Germans, ad
finally the first shipments of food
and medical supplies promised by
the Allies to alleviate the suffer-
ing of three years under the Nazi
whiptlash.
Planes Attack
The only indication of the where
abouts of the fleeing NaZis was an
airforce announcement that Brit
ish Mustangs had shot up enemy
transport, troops and locomotives
in the vicinity of Larissa, 1875 air..
line miles northwest of Athens and
an important junction of rail and
highway routes.
British units did not appear to
intend trying to catch the Ger
mans and forcing them to fight.
The main concern Of the Nazis
was to run the gauntlet of Marshal
Titos partisans and the Red army
in Yugoslayia to the north. It is
| 500 airline miles from Greece's
northern border to the German
frontier and nearly every feasible
land route is already cut. "a
Athens and its port of Piraeus
were occupied yesterday by sea-
borne units after the Germans
fled Once the breakup Of the Mst
German hold on Greece began de-
velopments came too fast even for
the planning and execution of Al
Lied folow-up operations.
Greeted By Greeks
A British paratrooper formation
jumped at noon yesterday in a 30
mile gale for the purpose of Sc
curing the Megara airfield, %
miles west of Athens. Instead OF
being greeted by bullets from Ma
us the paratroopers were met by
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nv The Associated Press

International questions will pro-
vide a central theme this week in
the presidential campaign, as 1t
roars on in full chorus toward
its November Z climax. :,
Both major party candidates Will
talk on foreign policy during the
week. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the
republican nominee, will address
the New York Herald Tribune $
forum Wednesday night. President
Roosevelt, who declined an invi-
tation to speak on the forum the
same night, will address the for
eign- policy association in New
York Saturday night.
Meanwhile, Senator Lafollette,
Wisconsin progressive called upon
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THO Artificial Harbors
Used By huasion Armies

complete with docks, piers and
breakwaters, capable of unloading
at least 1900 tons of stores and
$500 vehicles daily.
The ports were built in three
sections, blockships, caissons (sea
walls) and breakwaters.
, To provide immediate protection
for the smaller. ships, sixty old
ships were sunk forming five small
breakwaters along the French
coast. Several British and Dutch
warships were sent to the bottom
with the old flotilla that provided
$4,000 feet of breakwater.
The big construction task began
June 1913 when American and
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International Questions To Provide
Main Theme In Presidential Campaign

less of what the terms of peace
may be-"
Both the president and governor
Dewey considered booking addi-
tional speeches in key states as
the contest reached high pitch.
Mr.. Roosevelt's political aides
have indicated that he has high
on tentative calendar speeches
at such. cities as Philadelphia,
Cleveland and Chicago. Dewey,
who will speak at st. Louis tonight
Monday, has added speech at
Pittsburgh to his list.
The rival vice presidential can
didates are both on the Pacific
coast, contestin gfor California's rs
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both the republican and democra-
tic leaders to break what he call
ed their conspiracy of silence on
the vital issues of foreign policy. !"
tIt is time for America to break
away from the imperial designs
of Mr.. Churchill and the Soviet
drive for power of Mr.. Stain, :"
Lafolette said editorially in his
weekly newspaper, the progress
sive.
1.-THE meetings held in secret at
Dumbarton Oaks did not even
mention the great problems involv-
ed in Europe, Asia or Africa.
Their sole function was to try to
obtain agreement on a plan to
maintain peace by force, regard
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Bv ROBERT EUNsON

LONDON, Monday, Oct. 16.-R-
Two artificial harbors, built In
secret and towed across the chan
mel behind the assault forces for
installation on the Normandy
beaches, supplied the invasion ar
mics and made possible the lib
Grafton of western Europe" su
irene headquarters disclosed to-
night. :.
The worst channel storm in 40
wears wrecked one before it was
completed, but not before\it had
contributed heavily to the stream
of man and equipment pouring into
France. The other was finished as
planned-a port as big as Dover.
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MASS ATTACKS

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, New
Guinea, Monday, Oct. 15.-LP-
Gen. Douglas Macarthur unleash
ed at least $50 planes - and pos
sibly far more than that - at jap
anese air and naval bastions south
of the Philippines while navy air.
power was striking Formosa Fri
day, headquarters announced to.
day.
The communique disclosed that
a mass attack by $50 planes swept
over the islands of Ceram and Boz
roe. which the Japanese are using
as aerial outposts for the protec-
ton Of the Philippines and the
homeland, and left three important
airfields cratered and smoking.
Eighty tons Of bombs struck the
targets.
Balikpapan, the enemy's avia-
ton gasoline and oil center on Bor-
neo again was struck and large
fires we're started. The nearby air.
field Of Manggar was damaged.
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STORM FOLLOWING
WESTERN COURSE
Winds OF "a Miles An
Hour Are Reported On
Grand Cayman Island.

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 15.-RE
Winds of "a miles per hour, with
gusts we'll over 100 miles per
hour, were reported tonight on
Grand Cayman Island as the
Caribbean hurricane drifted slow
ly on a west northwest or north
westward course.
Hurricane winds extend out
ward from the center of the storm
50 to 100 miles and heavy squalls
over a wide area, the weather
bureau said.
winds and squalliness will in
crease gradually over western
Cuba and the Yucatan channel to-
night and Monday, and over cas-
tern Yucatan late Monday" a
1920 p. m. (EWT) advisory warm
ed.
The advisory indicated that
western Cuba may expect winds
up to so miles per hour Monday
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k!eet Forces Strike At Formosa
And Luzon, Destroy 81 Aircraft;
Action Flares On Western Front
CANADIANS BATTLE
SOUTH OF SCHELDE
First Army Units Smash
Violent Counterattack
In Aachen.
BY ALEX H. SINGLETARY
LONDON, Monday, Oct. 16.

By ALEX H. SINGLETARY
LONDON, Monday, Oct. 16.
= P) - The western front
flared with action Sunday
from its northern end in the
low countries to the southern
sector in the Vosges noun
tains.
While a savage ana crucial bat
tie ragged south Of the Schelde riv-
er estuary, where Canadian forces
were striving to free the entry to
the port of Antwerp, U. S. first
army units fighting inside Aachen
smashed the heaviest Nazi coun-
terattack yet made in the direc-
ton of that German city and 9TH
err Americans at the southern end
of the line advanced swiftly on
Bruyeres, IL IL miles east OF
Epinal. France.
The Nazi attempt to relieve the
Aachen garrison was repulsed by
massed artillery and anti-tank
guns. Doughboys meanwhile work
ed their way slowly through the
city, house by house and pillbox
by pillbox.
Spotty Resistance
The sudden American move in
the south was made against only
spotty Nazi resistance despite re-
ports that the Bruyeres vicinity
from which the Germans earlier
had launched violent counterat-
tacks, was strongly defended. A
dispatch from Associated Press
correspondent George Tucker said
the Americans were within a mile
of the city Sunday afternoon
Also on the move was 1t. Gen.
George S. Patton's Third army
which drove mile east beyond the
Parroy Forest in the Metz-Nancy
sector of the line, and the Lille
(Frdance) radio said the Ameri-
cans in that region seemed to DC
preparing for "an important Of
fensive'
Canadians fighting in Belgium
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Marshal Romnael's Death
From Wounds Announced
Snow Falls In Parts
OF New York State

ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 49,
(PHSnow fell in some portions
of New York state last night
and today, and the U. S.
weather bureau forecast be-
low freezing temperatures
across the state before morn
ing.
In New York City, tempera-
lures ranged from 43 degrees
to the fifties today, and a drop
tonight was predicted, with
frost in exposed sections.
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JAPANESE CLAIM
FLEET in ACTION
Battle Along Approaches
To Orient Nearing Ire
mendous Stage

HEADQUARTERS, PEAhA
HARBOR, Oct. Is. = up -
off strong japanese
air attacks, Pacific fleet task
forces smashed at Formosa
and Luzon again Friday ana
destroyed at least 81 enemy
airplanes.
At last reports the fighting
still was underway, and there
were strong indications that
the battle along the APP
proaches to the Orient was
building up to a tremendous
peak.
The Japanese have announced
that their fleet is in action. AL
though there was no indication
here that this was so, an engage
ment with the japanese fleet long
has been sought by Adm. William
F. Halsey and his fighting men.
Strong Defense
Whatever the extent, the gong
appacently was not unfavorarle
for the American forces, despite
the fact that the Japanese were
making their strongest defense
since their smashing defeat in the
battle of the Philippine sea June
10 and 10. -s5.T
Adm. Chester w. Ninitz, COM
in chief of Pacific ocean
areas, announced the continuing
raid in. 10 am. QIawaii time)
communique today.
He said tour plane losses 50 lar
have been light" -
There was no comment on Jap
anese, claims to have sunk or dam
aged more than so American ships.
Carrier planes first hit Formosa
Wednesday. The task forces fought
off small groups of enemy aircraft
that night, and again bombed and
strafed island installations and
shipping Thursday.
Planes of the Japanese Imperial
airforce concentrated the task
forces off Formosa strongly
throughout Thursday night, Nimitz
said.
HIS use of the phrase Imperial
airforce' indicated that army as
well as navy planes might nave
participated in the counterattack,
but gave no indication whether the
Japanese actually sent carrier-bas-
ed planes into the battle.
During the Thursday night at
tacks, American carrier planes
shot down 10 Japanese planes ana
anti-aircraft on the task force YES
sells destroyed seven more.
At dawn Friday carrier aircraft
of the Third fleet, feeling sure
enough of themselves to divide
their forces, struck both at Formo-
sa and Luzon.
They encountered little air oppo-
sition over the target. Preliminary
reports were that they shot down
II Japanese planes and destroyed
30 on the ground.
There were no reports on the
damage to- enemy installations. In
the two previous formosa raids.
1896 enemy planes were destroyed
and 60 ships sunk or damaged, at
a cost of As American planes. In
a raid upon Luzon Tuesday, 10 to
IS japanese planes were destroyed
on the ground.
Friday afternoon numerous"
single and twin-engine Japanese
planes attacked the task forces.
One American combat air patrol
shot down % planes, and ships
guns destroyed two more.
Other task force units also were
attacked and many additional
planes were known to have been
shot down.
Nimitz said further details would
be released as they became avail
able.
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PEACE UPRIsINGS

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-LR-The
Ankara radio quoted reports from
Bern today that so persons were
said to have been killed and hun
dreds injured in peace uprisings
last week in Vienna. Calm has not
yet been restored completely in
Vienna, the broadcast heard by
CHS added.
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WEATHER

N,.n FORECAST
Nofh Carolina: Clear Monday. Tues-
nay partly cloudy and continued con,
Eastern Standard Time,
Mst,ny U: 5. Weather Bureau)
endins eof . data for the "a hours
Low Pm, yesterday.
Ian Temperature
,.3 ao'V am, SO; 1870 am, 81: Lao nm ss.
~ pm, 81. Low pi'' 0o'
Normal S.. Va MINIMUM 81; Mean 60;
Tan i'V ~ am rs; 1880 am, rs; 1:so nm 81.
,Tot., Precipitation
900 inches. Aours ending 1880 pm,
III i0' ;noh snice the fist of tn. month
lFron >, Tides For Today
u s som the Tide Tables nub1;sn.d -,
00as' and Geodetic Survey "
Wilmington High Low
--------- lola 12:48,
Moonrllssee' ga e:ls am; Sunset 5;s7 p n.nol
$50 am; Moonset, 5:43 nm
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MORTGAGE SALE

UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the Pow
er of Sale contained in the Mortgage
from Harry Christensen and wife. Irene
Christensen, to the undersigned dated
August IL, 1914 and recorded in Book
1871 at Page 1l8 of the Registry of New
Hanover County, default having been
made in the payment of the indebted
ness secured by the same, the under
signed mortgage will on the 26th day
of January. 1915 at twelve 12) o'clock
noon at the Court House door of New
Hanover County, offer for sale and sell
at public auction to the last and highest
bidder for cash the following described
property:
Lying and being in Federal Point
Township. New Hanover County and be-
ing all of Lot No. IN Block No. 10
of the Hinton subdivision at Kures Beach
as per map or plan of same duly re-
corded in the Registery of New Ha- yer
County, in Book 252 at Page 562 l..
Dated and posted this the 25rd day OF
December, 1914.
j. H. HINTON Morteapee