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FRONT ST. fire
DAMAGE HEAVY

Flames that started indetermin-
ately in the Peoples Furniture store
or the Elks club O.. the second floor
Of the same building, Front street
between Chestnut and Grace, at
GAS o. clock last night were still
ln1conquered but under control at
1:45 o'clock this morning.
The blaze was the most stubborn
type that fire departments have to
battle ceiling and roof
and between brick walls which had
been sealed in and framed over.
Chief J. L. Groom, who sent in a
seconl alarm as soon as he arrived
at the scene, was not able to put a
figure on the damage from fire and
water, but declared it would run
high.
One fireman, Fred Lee, TBS South
Third street, member of No. 2 sta
ton crew, was overcome by smoke
and was taken to James Walker
Memorial hospital. At midnight he
had recovered consciousness and
was said to be in satisfactory
condition.
The fire. starting at thesrear OF
the building, ragged in the furniute
store and Elks club, and penetrated
the partition wall Of the rear OIL
fees Of the Lyman Supply CO., but
! did little damage to the latter
property.
/ At 1880 o'clock Chief Groom call
ed in relief crews to replace the
men, who had been on duty from
the start. Because the flames were
in almost inaccessible places il
was thought they would not be
wholly extinguished before day.
light.
Answering the alarm were Head
quarters company, No. 2 station,
at Fifth and Castle streets, No. 3
station, Fourth and Campbell, No.
5 station, 18th and Dock, and the
fire boat Atlantic.
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HITLER IN EXILE
WOULD STILL RULE
BY DON WHITEHEAD

WITH AMERICAN INFANTRY
AT THE sIEGFRIED LINE, Oca-
6.-tRLFrom inside Germany has
come story. that Adolf Hitler in
tends to guide the destiny Of the
reich throug Oh secretly-trained, ia
natica1 young Nazis even though he
should flee into exile.
Hitler youth and other y o u n
Nazis are being trained in secret
schools to carry on National So
cialism as an underground move
ment after Allied occupation Of the
reich, according to this informa-
ton.
It is said that the most fanatical
, of the Nazis preach doctrine that
nothing irreparable can happen to
Germany as long as Hitler lives
| to keep the flame of National So
cialism from being snuffed out.
Even though Hitler should flee
into exile or go into hiding, they
say, he will keep in touch with
the graduates of mis- 'junkerschu-
LEM or schools for rulers" and
through them rule the Reich.
Very. little is known of this clan
destine movement because its ac-
tivities are closely-guarded secrets
and each student is sworn to re-
veal nothing about the schools or
his utilization with them.
One informant said there are be-
lieved to be eight of these schools
operating in Germany to -perpetu-
ate the theology of National Social
ism even though Germany should
be overrun and present Nazi lead
ers seized.
During 1896 and 1887 the Nazi's
established schools under Robert
Ley, leader Of the German labor
front, and DR.. Alfred Rosenberg,
so-called Nazi philosopher, which
gave indoctrination courses for
Kreisleiters, Gauleiters Qocal and
regional leaders, and high SIS (elite
guard) members who were to take
key roles within the Nazi party.
Since 1887 this educational pro-
gram has been extended gradually.
Hitler youth were brought in for,
training, but none was. permitted
entrance except those whose back
ground had been examined care
fully with regard to racial purity
and leadership ability.
They were to be. future rulers
OF Germany, men devoting their
lives to. seeing that National So
cialism as expounded by der fueh-
rer" should live. And it was to
be their responsibility to run the
underground movement.
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ROOSEVELT SHOW
INCLUDES BLASTS

BOSTON, Oct. g. R Several
sharp explosions, as of large fire
crackers, caused a furry of excite
ment at Symphony hall tonight dur
ing the intermission of the sell-out
Premiere of the controversial mu-
steal revue, "F.D.R. Victory Band
wagon" :.
The first act was ended; Earl
browder, American Communist
leader, had just finished a speech
% the audience.
There were eight or 10 sharp ex.
ploslons from the lobby, just out
Side the auditorium of the hall.
Several persons ran for the door.
folce swung down the aisles and
INTO the corridor.
Police Sergeant Frank Mullen
expressed the opinion h a t fire.
crackers were hurled in a door
sofeast of the stage by some one,
VINO fled Immediately. Probably
someone trying to break UP the
meeting"
he added that some Of my mer
!ouno what seem to be the remains
VI exploded firecrackers."
AS the explosions started, almost
"ie entire audience stood.
o.. several men yelled "Sit down
Sit down."
ann Burlak, Who was speaking
. mom the stage at the time, re
s:dihed calm and exhorted the au
olence to be calm.
,.;d aes Our answer to that - sh,
sa nc, "be generous contributions. !"
o; ole referred to the fund Commu
a1ss are raising to aid in the re
siee'lon of President Roosevelt.
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|AUSTRIA'S NUMBER
due TO GO UP NEXT

LONDON, Saturday, Oct. Z.
|P)-Russian troops invading
tottering Hungary smashed
liz miles inside that last big
Axis satellite nation yester-
day, capturing a series of key
towns and functions within
100 miles of Budapest, the
capital and only Is miles from
Szeged, Hungary's second
city, Moscow announced off
cially last night.
Striking across rich farmlands
which offer little natural defense
lines for the Hungarians and boil
stering Nazi troops, the Russians
seized more than 100 localities on
a 75-nile fan-shaped front beyond
Arod, big west Romanian jumping
off base, the bulletins said.
Dispatches from the Soviet cap
ital said the Hungarian home front
might collapse at any moment,
and the Russians already are plan
ming for the. invasion of Austria
after knocking out Hungary.
Soviet planes dropped leaflets ex-
horting the Hungarians to quit the
Axis and save their country before
it is too late, and mobile loud
speakers went along with the
ground troops for the same pur-
pose.
In Yugoslavia other Soviet troops
were steadily outflanking Hungary
on the south, and were reported
to have sent patrols across the
Danube river into tn Belgrade
area. An unconfirmed A1giers ra-
dio report said the Germans were
evacuating some troops from the
Yugoslav capital with the use Of
big transport planes.
In the north, Berlin said the Rus
SLAMS were beginning big pincers
movement in western Lithuania
and northern Poland aimed at Ger
man East Prussia. Moscow was
silent about this new offensive, but
the conmunique did announce the
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In still another campaign devel-
opnent, Senavor O'Mahoney Cd
Wyo.) challenged Dewey to tell the
country how he is dealing with re-
publican isolationists- in the Senate
whose whispers will rise to roar
after the election is over"
O'Mahoney said in speech pre-
pared for the radio that the re-
publican presidential candidate
should answer this question before
he is allowed to take the peace
question out Of the campaign.
Gov. Dewey, without waiting for
his formal Charleston address to-
night, issued a statement at Al
bany IN obvious reference to the
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WASHINGTON, Oct. g. R "A
mans belt furnished a possible clue
tonight in the Staying Of Dorothy
Berrum, 17-year-old War depart
ment clerk from Chippewa Falls.
wis. who was found strangled with
her own snood early today on Po-
tomac park golf course.
Police said the belt was lying
about so feet from the girls body,
was new, and lad been exposed to
the elements only few hours. Il
had no Identification marks but
detectives counted 1t as an impor.
tant find.
Two park Employees came across
Miss Berrum's body while clean
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BRITISH IN GREECE
NEARING CORINTH

ROME, Oct. 6.-tR-British inva-
sion forces in Greece advanced to-
day toward the isthmus of Corinth,
gateway to Athens, and it appear
ed that the Germans already had
abandoned most Of the Peloponne-
sus getting out of all Of Greece as
rapidly as they could.
Seizure Of the fortified town Of
Rion, seven miles east Of the cap
tured port of Patrai, sealed off the
Gulf OF Corinth at its narrow
mouth.
Up the Adriatic coast, Brit
ish guns on the Dalmat1ln islands
shelled enemy traffic along TIL e
coastal road. British planes on a
raid near Salonika destroyed three
enemy transport planes and shot
up dozen retreating Nazi motor
vehicles.
(The Ankara radio reported to-
night that Allied troops were fight
ing on Corfu and that troops cross
ing from Albania had linked up
with others already engaging the
enemy on the island. The Paris
radio reported another landing in
Albania about five miles from the
besieged enemy supply port OF Sa-
rande).
Deserted by their German mas
tiers, security battalions" of COL
laborating Greeks were reported
surrendering without fl ght at
many points in the Peloponnesus,
and the visit of a minister of the
Greek government to cities well in
land indicated strongly that more
than half of the peninsula already
was firmly held by British troops
and Greek patriots.
Premier George Papandreou an
nounced that Panaghiotis Kanellop-
olous, minister of finance and re-
construction, had landed at the is
land Of Kythera, where the in
habitants gave him a heartfelt re-
ception," then had gone to the Pei
oponnesus.
He addressed a crowd of Kala-
mai, at the head Of the Messene
gulf, and visited Tripolis, city
in the east central Peloponnesus,
60 miles southeast of captured Pat
raj and only IS miles southwest OF
Athens.
At Rion, the British turned cap
tured enemy guns with good re-
suits" on the Germans attempting
to reach the north shore of the
Gulf of Corinth, it was announced.
Dozens more small craft, discov-
cred loaded with fleeing Germans
along the south shore of the gulf,
were attacked by rocket-firing Hur-
ricanes Of the Balkan air force.
The enemy's guns at Andirrion, op-
posite Rion, were silent yesterday.
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ROOSEVELT ERRED
ON MAIL FRANKINC

| WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-Ri-Re'
publicans and democrats in con.
gress launched into fresh argument
today over who is doing the most
free mailing, after the White House
announced that President Roose-
welt erred in stating saiat repubh.
cans had 5000, 900 copies Of a
speech printed at government ex-
pense.
Rep. Taber (R.-N.Y), listed by
Chairman Anderson I'd. NM OF
the House Campaign Expenditures
committee as having franked
ENABLED free) $4,000 Of the speech
es sent out under frank by the
democrats exceeds the number
sent out by the Republicans 3 to
L."
Anderson promptly challenged
Taber to present figures showing
any democrat had mailed at gov
eminent expense anything like g.
600, 900 copies Of one speech-or
even 100000 copies"
The speech in question, by Rep.
Eusbey R.-In.). referred to "the
red spectre of communism stalk
ing our country"
Mr.. Roosevelt mentioned this in
his radio address last night and
went on to say that 10 republicans
had more than three million
copies printed free by the govern
ment printing office requiring
more than 10 tons Of scarce paper
and sent them through the mails
all over the country at the tax.
payers expense"
The text Of his speech distributed
in advance to the press did moi
include the word free" and today
the White House issued a state
ment saying the President inter
polated it inadvertently and in err
ror.
This was an ihadvertence be
cause the actual paper and the
printing were paid for by someone
but the mailing Of more than 3,0O0,.
600 documents was free, under the
franks of the 10 republican mem
bers Of Congress-" the White
House statement said. The cost
! of mailing far. exceeded the cost
Of printing"
Anderson, discussing the mailing
Of this speech, said in a statement
last Tuesday that the, printing costs
were paid by Emil Hurja of Path.
finder magazine, NJ. w Pickering,
! clerk to republican house mem.
bers, and Miss Stefan who
was not further identified. Il
Before the White House state.
ment was issued, Rep. Reed (R..
] CONTINUED ON Pare Three: Col. q
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Young War Department Girl Clerk
Murdered In Park; Bell Only Cleu

ing up park debris. She was lying
near the sixth green, lace up in
the wet grass, some 40 feet from
a roadway which circles the park.
Nearby where bloodstains and
signs Of terrific struggle. H r
face was bruised and scratched.
Coroner A. Magruder Mcdonald
said she, had been attacked.
Her slight stature and dress led
police to presume she was even
younger than her II years until
Identification was established.
She was four feet, five inches,
weighed 90 pounds, and was wear.
ing bobby sox'' and juvenile type
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shoes, brown dress and a red
coat with big white buttons
identification was established
through a Chippewa Falls H & b
school ring initiated ID. b." De.
tective Chief Robert J. Barrett
said he talked with her father in
Chippewa Falls and learned the
girl came here last June after
graduating from high school and
began work for the ordnance divi.
sion Of the War department.
She lived h err e, at Arlington
Farms, wartime government .
constructed housing center in near
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ED.R. Stirs Big Tempest By Rejecting
Red Support; Dewey Pledges Ans1Der

Presidents radio speech Thursday
night. The statement said:
Mr.. Roosevelt asked the Ameri-
can people not to look now be.
cause somebody is following him.
Since he would like softly to deny
the means by which he seeks cleo.
ton to 16 straight years in the
White House, I shall be compelled
to discuss it quite openly in
Charleston on the radio"
Herbert Brownell, Jr., Republic
can national chairman, said in Co
lumbus, o, that he hoped Mr..
Roosevelt would clarity his state.
Continued on Page Three; Col. u
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SUTTON GUILTY;
GIVEN 8 YEARS

Charlie T. Sutton, charged with
criminal assault on Maffitt Viii
lage white woman, was found gull
ty of assault with intent to com
init rape in Superior court l a IT
night and was senenced by Judge
w. H. S. Burgwyn of Woodland
from eight to IS years in state
prison. .lf
Sutton filed through his attorneys
a notice Of appeal to Supreme
court. Appearance bond was set at
IS, 900 and appeal bond at $3.50.
District Solicitor Clifton Moore,
who asked for a verdict of guilty
of rape, spoke to the jury for near
ly two hours yesterday afternoon.
He reminded them that it t o k
"nerve and strong heart to fight
the battle on the home front, re-
ferring to their position as citizens
whose duty it was to protect those
who were fighing On foreign sol
for their country.
The husband of the alleged vic.
tim of the criminal assault, Of
which Sutton was accused, is serv.
ing in the armed forces in the
South Pacific.
Rivers D. johnson. well known
Warsaw attorney, made 45-min'
ute appeal before the jury yester
day morning on behalf of Sutton
Johnson followed Attorney David
Sinclair, who talked briefly, ano
preceded Aaron Goldberg, of the
defense counsel, who spoke for ap'
proximately an hour and a half.
Judge Burgwyn charged the jury
to return one Of tour verdicts:
guilty of rape, guilty of assault
with intent to rape. assault on a
female, and not guilty.
To allow completion of the case.
which had been in progress since
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Put Your Waste
Paper Out Early
ForFrat e m ity

A bundle Of wastepaper is .
bundle Of ammunition! Sup
porting the fact that paper is
the nations No. critical war
need, the Senior Fraternity of
the Brigade Boys club will
canvass the city tomorrow
morning in . house-to-house
collection Of wastepaper.
All you have to do is bundle
your paper and place it ON the
curb in front Of your house
before 8 .. m. ~.
The proceeds from the
paper, which win be sold to
the Southern Junk company,
Will 60 to help the UNDER
privileged boys of the Brig
ade and to make improve
ments at the armory, Thurs
ton Davis, president of the
Fraternity, announced.
For the past three months
members Of the Fraternity
have been collecting paper
after they finished their days
work, but with winter coming
and the days getting so much
shorter they don't have time
to get the paper before dark.
This final aH-out drive will
close their salvage campaign
which has resulted in the col
lection Of $4,000 pounds Of
paper during the 72-day period
prior to Sept. 1.
A. C. Nichols, city manager.
has promised the Fraternity
several trucks to aid in the
canvass.
The Fraternity emphasizes
the fact that a larger cover
age of the city can be made
If people will place the paper
on the curb by or before 3 ..
m. so that much time will not
have to be spent getting the
paper from porches, especial
ly those set back from the
street.
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Conference On Winter
War On Western Front
S UPREM E HEADQUAR-
TIERS LIE D EXPEDI-

UPRE M E HEADQUAR-
TIERS LIE d EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Oct. g.
R-Gen. George c. Marshall
arrived in Paris today after =
nonstop flight from the Unit
ed States, and conferred inn
mediately with General Eisen-
hover and his staff.
There was no explanation
for the unheralded visit of the
Army Chief Of Staff, nor for.
the presence Of James F.
Byrnes, director Of war
mobilization, in his party.
They arrived, however, In
the midst Of increasing reports
that the Allies are preparing
for q winter Of war on the
Western front.
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BERLIN BLASTED
AGAIN FROM AIR

. LONDON, Saturday, Oct. T. u
American and British heavy
bombers blasted Germany yester-
day and last night in series Of
mighty attacks Oh Berlin and other
targets, probably pouring more
than 10000 tons Of explosives or
war plants Of the Reich in theil
devastating cumulative assault.
approximately 1900 u. S. Fort.
resses and Liberators hit Berlin
and Hamburg in one Of the great
est daylight mass raids of h {
war and another fleet Of 500 Brit
fish Lancasters and Halifaxe.
struck synthetic oil plants in the
Ruhr.
These daytin blows were fol
lowed up during the night by an
other tremendous RAE operation
by an estimated 1000 heavy bomb
ers which hit Berlin for the third
time in "a hours as well as bort
mund, Bremen and Saarbrucken
Preliminary reports said t h {
night raiders hal caused great de
struction, adding to the wreckagt
left by the previous attacks in day.
light and on Thursday night.
Pilots the greater part Of
the port city Of Bremen appeared
to be ablaze, Dortmund was hard
hit, and fires started in Saarbruck
en- Thursday night had been raised
anew by the latest blasting.
The Fortresses a n d Liberators
under escort of 800 fighters, rained
explosives on oil refineries, tank
factories, aircraft engine plants
and ordnance dumps.
The British planes, also well pro.
tected by fighters, made a heavy
attack on synthetic oil plants al
Scholden Buer and Sterkrade in
the Ruhr valley in good flying
weather.
The days operations cost Is
American bombers and 10 fighters.
Our four engined warplanes
knocked down three German
planes while fighter escort bagged
| II more.
Fighters also destroyed SO enc.
my seaplanes and wrecked three
other enemy planes on the ground.
An Army air force spokesman
described the attack on the reich
capital as "the most devastating
since July 21,'' when 1000 Ameri-
can heavyweights rocked the Ger
man citadel.
The German air force again was
absent over Hamburg, but some
Nazi fighters accepted the chal-
lenge at Berlin.
The big daylight blows followed
a heavy night strike by 400 Raj
Lancasters and Halifaxes which
dumped $4,000 incendiaries n
many tons Of high explosives, in.
GLIDING two ton bombs, on the
important German industrial city
and railway hub Of Saarbrucken,
opposite the American land front
near Metz.
Swift British mosquito bombers
hit Berlin last night as a feint
for the soaring Saarbrucken raid,
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Marshall, Byrnes and =
small group Of high-ranking
army officers arrived 1T an
airfield just outside Paris 20
hours after leaving Washing
ton.
As he stepped from the
plane, the general was met by
Eisenhower, 1t. Gen. Omar N.
Bradley, commander Of the o..
S. 18th Army group, and 1t.
Gen. Walter Bedell Smith,
Eisenhower's chief Of staff.
With Marshall, In addition to
Byrnes, were 1t. Gen. Thomas
T. Handy. Marshall's chief OF
operations, Maj. Gen. Howard
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Hitler Planning Last
Desperate Fling With
Rocket-Plane Force

LONDON, Oct. 6. -P)- HIT
Ter apparently is planning to
have, one last desperate fling IN
the sky with his hot-tailed Jet
planes.
The fuehrer has given top pri-
ority to the creation Of . new
air ARM" the German news
agency reported today, ana ior
: week DNB has been telling
listeners about Certain spe-
cial new formations Of the Luft-
waite" in operation over the
. uexfern front.
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SurpAY Blow Struck At Siegfried Line;
Red invade Hungary, Take Key Towns;
Marshall Flies To Paris; Sees Eisenhower
list ARMY DRIVES
NEARER COLOGNE

SUPREME HEADQUAR.
ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Oct. g.
(P)--The U. S. First army
dealt a great surprise blow
at the Siegfried line south OF
the German fortress Of Aach-
en- today, driving through the
evergreen forest of Hurtgen
to within 26 miles Of Cologne
and the Rhine behind the
drumfire Of massed artillery
and swarms of warplanes.
This new assault was uncorked
as the Germans, sucked 16 miles
north to defend breach torn in
the line by First army drive
now five days old, hurled in all
available reserves and 80 tanks and
drove the Americans temporary
from Beggendorf, at the tip OF
salient menacing the Ruhr valley.
Then the doughboys, reinforced
by tanks, swept back into Beggen-
dorf and the German town was re.
ported firmly in their grasp.
British tanks also penetrated in
to Anthem in Holland during the
Gay, the Berlin correspondent Of
the Swedish newspaper Dagens Ny.
heter said.)
Supreme headquarters said =
force which by passed Beggen-
dorf was locked in a battle that
was growing more bitter by the
hour.
Fifty German fghterbombers
strafed American troops, but alert
ground gunners knocked down or
probably destroyed Is of them.
| It was too early to tell whether
the savage new onslaught, 10 miles
j southeast OF Aachen, caught the
enemy off balance, but front dis
lpatch said 1t. Gen. Courtney H.
Hodges assault units advanced
NEARLY a mile in an hour and a
half and were within six miles OF
Duren, 20 miles from Cologne.
! Hundreds OF fighter bombers,
1oosed by the first clear weather
since the big push opened, blasted
at camouflaged bunkers and pill
boxes hidden along the needle i.
carpeted floor of Hurtgen forest.
But still advance units were met
by a storm Of mortar and small
arms fire.
/ 1t was the first break in til Q
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