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Jap Drive In China
Temporarily Halted

CHUNGKING, Sept. %. Up -
The Chinese high command an
nounced tonight that fighting was
continuing against the Japanese
on the Hunan-KWangsi railway
about 40 miles northeast of Kwei-
lin, strategic defense center which
the Chinese press urged the mill
ta1y authorities to hold at all costs.
Failure of the Japanese to ad-
vance on that front in the past few
days was regarded by observers
in Chungking as an indication that
they were assembling forces for
an about push.
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Roosevelt
Hits Hard
At Dewey
OPENS FALL CAMPAIGN
Republican Opposition Ac.
cused Of Attempts To
Claim New Deal

WASHINGTON, Sept. %
Up - President Roosevelt
opened his fourth term cam.
paign tonight with a hard hit
ting speech accusing the Re.
publican opposition of at.
tempting to claim credit fo1
the New Deal. He charged
that G.. O. P. orators were
guilty of most obvious com.
mon or garden variety of
fraud"
Speaking before the AFL Team.
sters union, the President said the
whole purpose of Republican ora.
tory these days is to per.
suade the American people that
the Democratic party was respon.
sible for the 1929 crash and de.
preston, and that the Republican
party was responsible for all so.
cial progress under the New
Deal"
There is one thing am too
old for" the President declared
II cannot talk out of both sides
of my mouth at the same time. y
Mr.. Roosevelt made a point by
point reply to almost every crit
sim leveled against his admins.
tration by h i S Republican oppo.
nent, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Of
New York.
He declared the government vel
comes "all sincere supporters Of
the cause of effective world col
Elaboration, adding that millions oil
Republicans are with u.s.
"And they too will resent this
campaign talk by those who first
woke up to the facts of interna.
tiona1 life few short months
ago." when they began to study
the polls of public opinion" the
President said.
Mr.. Roosevelt, speaking before
the same union which heard him
open his third term campaign or
September II. 1910, greeted t h c
teamsters by saying:
IT am actra ally four years older
which seems to annoy some
people. In fact, millions Of us are
more than II years older tn a r
when we started in to clear ur
the mess that was dumped in our
laps in 1882
From that he launched into ar
attack upon the Republican cam
paign. although he did not men
ton Governor Dewey by name.
He termed a Jealous and bra
zen falsehood'' an assertion tha'
the administration plans "to KEEP
men in the army when the wal
is over, because there might be
no Jobs for them in civil life. .
"why," Mr.. Roosevelt continued
s'the very day that this fantastic
charge was first made, a forma,
plan for the method Of speedy dis
charge of the army had already
been announced by the War de
partment-a plan based upon the
wishes of the soldiers themselves. .
Mr.. Roosevelt a d Republican
leaders have carried the attack:
against his administration ever
down to ''include my little dog
Fala. Unlike the members OF my
family he resents this"
The President said as soon as
Fala heard that Republican flc'
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-B
"A prospect of an early presi-
Dental signatures - perhaps
next week-on the reconver-
sion and war surplus bills STIR
red speculation today on Mr..
foosevelt's choice Of new
faces in the high official
family.
Fred M. vinson. Donald M.
Nelson, Harold D. Smith and
Nnester Bowles have been
mentioned among possibilities
iSf the proposed No. l de-
Maobilization job, director Of
as Office of War Mobiliza-
asl and Reconversion. Direc-
%f James F. Byrnes has de-
ssfed his intention to step out
y Hne government when his
vince of War Mobilization be-
ZONES OWMR. :
Vinson, now director Of the
vince Of Economic Stabiliza-
"ss' appears to have the in
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Transports Defy Flax
To Carry More Troops

LONDON, Sept. 23.-(P- At
least q German planes were
destroyed in a series of dog
fights over Holland today as a
great armada of American and
British glider-towing transports
delivered thousands of fresh
troops and supplies to help eff
forts to relieve the Lost divi-
sion" in the Anthem area.
The transports flew through
binding flax to accomplish
their mission.
The daring trip was carried
out in the late afternoon with
the aid Of a sudden break in
the weather. The German radio
later warned that night bonn
bers, which had been held back
fo- several days by weather,
were over the Reich again.
Observers accompanying the
airborne reinforcements de-
scribed it as one of the most
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Pc Valley
Lays Open
ToAdvance
EIGHTH ARMY GAINS
British Units Fight Out
Onto Plains In East
As 5th Moves Up

ROME, Sept. 23.-P) -
American forces have smash
ed through the center of the
German Gothic line and are
looking down on the Pc val
ley of northern Italy, it was
disclosed tonight, while the
British Eighth army on the
east coast, fighting out onto
the Pc plains, pushed the Ma
zis out of strategic road and
rail positions.
Sid FEEDER, Associated Press cor
respondent with the Fifth army,
said the exact location Of the new
American. positions could not be
disclosed, but that, cit seems safe
to say the smash which carried
Fifth army troops over some of
the tallest peaks in Italy to where
the broad Lombardy plain-at the
gateway Of which lies Bologna
is untolded before them tore the
heart of the Gothic line at point
where it was probably the
deepest"
Previous reports had put the
Americans 2 miles south OF Bolo-
gna at the southern threshold OF
strategic Futa pass.
The American advance was
rammed home with one of the
heaviest artillery concentrations
of the war, with some German
prisoners reporting the snellfire
had cut some Of their battalions
to as few as so men.
The B az i expeditionary
force on the western seaward
flank was we'll on the way to cap
turing its first big objective, ham,
mering on 20 miles northwest of
Pisa to within % miles of the
Italian port Of La Spezia.
1t. Gen. Sir Oliver Leese's
Eighth army routed the last enc
my troops south Of the Mareccaio
river, which flows through the
fallen eastern Gothic line anchor
of Rimini and was swiftly deepen
ing the bridgehead across the
stream which puts it out on the
Pc plain.
AS they fought out On to the
ancient Via Aemilia, a highway
which runs along the southern
edge of the Pc valley IS miles
northwest to Bologna, British and
Canadian troops were rounding up
an increasing number of pri-
soners.
Other Eighth army forces were
fighting straight north toward
Ravenna, "a miles beyond Rimini,
driving before them concentra-
tons of enemy troops who were
raked yesterday by the fire of
the British destroyer Loyal.
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dramatic Of any of the weeks
numerous leap-frogging opera
tons to land among the dikes
and windmills.
First reports regarding en-
envy air opposition were some.
what confusing. A special an
nouncement from Supreme
Headquarters of the Allied Ex-
peditionary Force mentioned
strong opposition from the
ground and in the air." while
one observer reported he saw
only one Nazi planes.
Recalling the desperate ef-
fort the Luftwaffe made to
break up the last glider convoy
to the Netherlands-with a loss
OF 20 Allied planes-it is prob.
able that a much stronger e.
cort was employed today.
Probably today's escort mum.
bered well over 1000 fighter
plane
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Finnish Reinforcements
Begin Attacking Nazis

/. LONDON, Sept. 23.-P)-Finnish
reinforcements rushing 300 miles
north of Helsinki have begun at
tacking German troops dug in OH
the Olunj oki- Olujarvi line across
the center of Finland, the Helsinkl
radio announced tonight.
"Since it has become clear that
German troops in northern Finland
have not withdrawn within the stl-
pulated time from Finnish terri
tory necessary measures have been
taken" the announcement Sald.
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Britishers
Also Join
Paratroops
POSITION STILL BAD
End Army Patrols Forge
Thin Link With Men
In Anthem Sector

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Sept. %.
-P)-British Second army
patrols tonight forged a ten
uous link with units of the
''Lost division of airborne
troops in the Arnheim sector
in Holland, and thousands Of
British and American glider
troops, with large amounts of
supplies, were flown in de-
spite strong opposition to re-
inforce 1t. Gen. Miles G..
Dempsey's hard-slugging res
cue troops.
A late front dispatch said the sit
uation in the Anthem sector re-
manned serious, even as the Sec
ond army, after a bloody six
mile relief march, hurled shells
across the river into enemy lines
ringing the valient sky troops just
quarter of mile away from the
hard won British position on the
north bank Of the Rhine.
The British advance was punch
ed out through enemy strength,
and extremely heavy fighting con.
tinued in the whole sector tonight.
To the South, U. S. Third army
armor churned forward through a
sea Of mud in a six mile push, cap
turing Buriville, six miles north Of
Baccarat and about 80 miles east
of Nancy. The remainder of the
Third army front was stalled by
rain and strong Nazi resistance.
British tanks and infantry and
the American sky troops who fought
through stand and die resistance
apparently sent their patrols across
the river at the Anthem bridge.
A link up in force would signalize
a great Allied victory on the Ruhr
valley route to Berlin.
The Germans, who throughout the
day battered with tanks and 88
nm. guns at Dempsey's Eindho-
ven Nijmegen corridor, sent
planes in groups of 20 and 80 to
battle the troop laden elders and
transports reinforcing the Second
army The Nazi airmen were driv-
en- back by hundreds of fighters
the largest escort yet sent with
airborne reinforcements.
The British widened the corridor
through which they rushed to the
lower Rhine, taking the town Of
Beck, three miles southeast of Nil
megen at the corridors upper end
and two other small towns two or
three miles east of Eindhoven and
about an equal distance west at the
base.
Heavy fighting ragged in almost
a 100 = mile stretch from the Dutch
frontier south to the Moselle front
as the Germans threw in one tank.
led counterattack after another.
Each successive attack was thrown
back.
In one of these counterthrusts
about seven miles southeast of
Aachen the enemy suffered the loss
of 40 per cent of his forces before
he was beaten off. In the Metz
area, to the South, American troops
beat off small forces of Germans
who drove into the Third arny's
lines in the Pournoy area.
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Morgenthau's plan, drawn UP aft
er his recent return from Euro
rean battlefronts and England, is
reported to have had the general
approval of the President since be-
fore his Quebec conference wi
Prime Minister Churchill. It has
failed to win support, however,
from Secretary OF State Hull and
is violently opposed by War Sec
rotary Stimson.
Hull, Stimson and Morgenthau
form the cabinet committee.
For the time being the dispute
over the Morgenthau plan has SO
snarled up Treasury, War and State
department. work on detailed ar
rangements for postwar control OF
Germany that three power plan.
ming by this country, Britain and
Russia on long range German
policy also has virtually stalled.
This planning, carried on through
The European advisory commission
had been proceeding along lines
other than those advocated by Nor
genthau, so far as American lead
erS were concerned.
Mr. Roosevelt presented the Nor
genthau plan to Prime Minister
Churchill at Quebec. Morgenthau
and British Foreign Secretary An.
thony Eden were present. Stimson
and Hull were not.
Morgenthau came away from the
conference with the impression that
Churchill found h s proposals ac'
eeptable, especially since Eden is
reported to have held somewhat
similar views. t....-
What Premier Stain plans with
respect to Germany apparently still
Is not known here. Morgenthar
BASED his plan on three assump'
IONS with respect to Russia: (A)
russia wants East Prussia a n {
most Of Silesia to go to POLAND
70 offset Poland's loss of eastern
territory to the Soviet Union; OBJ
Russia wants German labor bat
lallons put to work on the Sovie
Union reconstruction; Co with he1
own huge needs for manpower
lContinued on Pare Two: Col. 6
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W E A T H E R
FORECAST

FORECAST
WI MINGTON AND VICINITY: Part
Nv cloudy with moderate temperatures
today.
Temperatures yesterday:
High 82-Low IS.
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "A hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am, 70; 1880 am, S.; 1870 pm, 81;
1880 pm, 70.
MAXIMUM 50; Minimum IS; Mean ~;
Normal IL.
Humidity
1880 am, rs; 1880 am, 80; 1880 pm, AZ;
1880 pm, IS.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 pm,
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month,
3.19 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by
U. s. Coast and Geodetic survey
High Low
Wilminrto - 1:54a 9:09a
2:48p 10:14p
Masonboro Inlet --------A-- 5:47a
12:11p 6:46p
Sunrise. 500 am; Sunset. sos PM;
Moonrise, 1928 am; Moonset, 1895 pm.
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The Red army aided by an Els.
tonian corps captured Parlu i, an.
other administrations ADVANCE
from Paide, so miles to the north.
east, and its fall cut the land es.
cape routes fo- thousands of a be.
wildered foe caught between Par.
nu and Talinn, captured Eston.
ian capital u miles to the north.
At sea Red naval planes pursu.
ed some German ships which es.
capped from Tallinn with troops
aboard. During Friday the Soviet
airmen sank II of these evacuation
vessels, and apparently thousands
of Germans persisted in the Gulf oil
Finland.
The fall of Riga, Latvian CAPT
tai 81 miles south of Parnu, appear.
ed imminent as four powerful So
Wet armies pressed the speedy
cleanup of Estonia and Latvia in
sensational gains. Some Russian
units were fighting in Riga's outer
southern defenses, and Red artil
lery was laying down bar-ages or
Nazi positions in the strategic city.
The Soviet victories in Estonia
and Latvia were regarded merely
as the forerunner of great attacks
on East Prussia, in Poland and on
Hungary. They shortened the front
by more than 12O miles, gave the
Red fleet new bases and the air
force fields from which the Rus.
SLAMS can control two-thirds of the
Baltic sea.
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ROLLS UNDER CARS

NEW YORK, Sept. %. - up -
A 34-year-old blind man, James
Turner, walked off subway plat
form tonight, rolled into a depres-
sion between the tracks and was
helped out, uninjured, after two
cars of tain had passed over him.
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Officials Split
OnPeace Policy
VOL. 1e.-NO. A.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-(P)-President Roosevelts
cabinet committee German peace policy has split wide
open learned today plan sponsored by Treas
ury Secretary Morgenthau for completely destroying Ger
many modern industrial state and converting it into
agricultural country Of small farms.
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Nazi Troops Trapped
By Soviet Offensive

LONDON, Sunday, Sept. 24-(p-Russian troops
racing Estona reached the west coast yesterday
capturing the port of Parnu the Gulf of Riga and seal
ing off thousands Of Germans weeod offensive which
is estimated to have cost the enemy eight divisions or &c.
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NAB MAIL CARRIER FOR
TAKING GAS COUPONS

WAS HINGTON, Dec. 26.
(ANP)-David C. Perry, mail car
rier, has been taken in custody,
charged by postal inspectors with
mulcting the mails of over 1000
gasoline coupons and ordered held
in $4,000 bond by U. S. Commits
sioner Needham c.. Turnage.
Perry was arrested at his home
as result of an investigation be-
gun last August when clients on
his mail route complained of fail
ure to receive gasoline and fuel oil
coupons.
Postal inspectors found 25 gal
Ions worth Of C gas coupons reg
istered by the ration board to a
David Willis in Perry's possession
at the time of the arrest. Inspec-
tors also found some 450 unde-
livered letters and Christmas cards
in the defendants car. Perry has
been mail carrier for over 10
years.
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CHURCH OPPOSES
POSTWAR (0N5(RIpTI0N

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 90
ANP)-Expressing the fear that
the postwar army Of the United
States will still be rampant with
discrimination, the Negro church
called upon Congress to postpone
for the present any thought of COM
pulsory conscription. The view was
expressed by the Washington bu-
reau Of the Fraternal Council Of
Negro Churches.
despite a commendable record
on the part of Negro soldiers in
many war theaters, irritating preju-
dice and injustice continue to sub
ject them to narrow jim crow limi-
tations and mistreatment, both in
the actual armed services and by
petty civilian officers" the state
ment, made by the Rev. William
H. Jernagin, bureau director, said.
Indeed" he added, "the mistreat-
ment of Negro soldiers has become
so Objectionable and disgraceful
that it has become the major con-
Germ of the united Negro church. F"
Jernagin asserted that the con-
tinuous spread of the dangerous
philosophy" of Nazism over here is
making "hypocrites" of many Of our
army officials and embarrassing
the commander -in-chief outside con-
tinental United States.
Postwar conscription based on
the same untenable promise Of Jim
crowism has that of the present
army can do nothing but ferment
world disaster" the statement con-
cludes.
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GIRL CHOSEN AS
COLLEGE TEAM CAPTAIN :

FRAMINGHAM, Mass, Dec. 20
(ANP)-Portia Dugger, one of
four colored students attending
birmingham State Teachers col
lege, was named college basketball
captain for 1915 during the ban
quet of SO students and faculty
members held here. In hopes Of be-
coming dietitian, Miss Dugger,
majoring in nutrition in Medford
this year. She is sister of the
famous Tufts college track star,
Edward Dugger.
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Save NEWSkIAN FROM Deportation
AUTO WORKERS UNION GIVE
IA NEGROES TOP POSITION

DETROIT, Dec. 26. (ANP)-
The United Auto Workers (CIO) f,
considered the largest in the ma
ton, boasts that it has IA Negro
full time international representa-
tives or specialists employed.
Among those who hold high and
responsible posts are Wesly
Thompson of Local 274, which dep
resents workers at the Studebaker
aviation plant, Chicago; George w.
Crockett, Jr., executive secretary
of the unions newly organized
FEPC who also serves as advisor
to R. J. Thomas, president Of the
international union, on problems
dealing with racial minorities and
Mrs. Lillian Hatcher, Detroit, who
is attached to the women's bureau
of the unions WPC.
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Civilians To Get 100000
Less Passenger Tires

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-Civil-
ians will get 100000 less passenger
tires in January than this month,
OPA said today.
The cut from 100000 to 1,8O0,-
900 results from General Eisen-
hower's call "for more tires to sup
port our invasion forces" it was ex-
planned. In addition the January
quota of small truck and bus tires is
down sharply.
With "A' motorists due to wait
until late 1916 for new tires, OPA
urged full use of recapping facili-
ties. 1t said that Substantial pro-
portion" of this equipment is idle,
while passenger and commercial
vehicle owners are swamping local
ration boards with applications for
new tires"
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CHICAGO LAWYER MADE
PUBLIC RELATIONS man

FORT BENNING, Ca, Dec. 26.
(ANP)-Pvt. Ulysses S. Keys, who
was a Chicago lawyer and former
newspaperman prior to his induc-
ton, has been assigned to duty as
public relations representative Of
the Fort Benning reception center,
it was announced by Col. John P.
Edgerly, commanding officer Of
the center.
Pvt. Keys was formerly execu-
tive editor of the Chicago Bee and
also editor of Common Outlook
magazine.
Prior to his induction, he was a
lawyer in the legal department of
the Office of Price Administration
at Chicago.
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Wendell WiIIkie Awards
Established For Outstanding
Writings In Negro Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 26. (ANP)-
Creation of Wendell Willkie awards
Of $500 and $3.50 prizes annually,
for distinguished writing on ques-
tions of general interest in the
Negro press, has been announced
by DR.. Douglas S. Freeman, editor
of the Richmond News-Leader and
Mark F. Ethridge, publisher of the
Louisville Courier-Journal and
chairman of committee of jour-
nalists. Awards will be made in the
month of October.
Two committees, regional and
honorary, will be active in select
ing the winners. Members of the
regional staff are Marshall Field,
publisher and editor of the Chi
cago Sun; Paul Bellamy of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer; Marquis
Childs, Washington columnist
Virginius Dabney of the Richmond
Times-Dispatch; George Cornish of
the New York Herald Tribune /;
Palmer Hoyt Of the Portland Ore
gonian; Louis M. Lyons of the Bos-
ton Globe; Ralph McGill Of the
Atlanta Constitution Basil l.: Wal
ters of the Detroit Free Press and
Harrington Wimberly of the Altus
(Okla.) Times-Democrat.
Honorary representatives are
DR.. Freeman, DR.. Frank Ayde-
lotte, director of the institute for
advanced study of Princeton uni
versity; DR.. w. E. B. Dubois, di-
rector of special research for the
NAACP; DR.. Robert G.. Sproul of
the University of California Chan
ming H. Tobias of the YMCA; Carl
Van Doren, author, and Mrs.
Eugene Meyer of Washington.
The regional committee will first
consider entries and then pass them
on to the honorary staff to make
the final selection.
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WOUNDED IN ITALY

Word has been received from
Mrs. Ellis that her son, First Ser
geant Jack A. Ellis, has been
wounded while in action in Italy
No information as to the extent
of the injury was received.
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League Action
Is Successful

NEW YORK, Dec. 26. (ANP)-
A campaign by the Workers De-
fense League to save a colonial
Negro from deportation to British
Guinea ended triumphantly here
with the release from Ellis Island
of Samuel A. Beyea, liberal news
paper writer and former Univer-
sity of Wisconsin student. Beyea
was arrested in Providence, R. l.,
on Oct. 9, while working at the
Walsh-Kaiser shipyard plant. After
spending night in the Providence
county jail he was held pending de-
portation at the immigration sta
tions and Ellis Island for 65 days.
immigration action climaxed a
seven-year fight by the British
Guinea writer to establish himself
legally in the country. Beyea came
to the y. S. in June, 1897, as re-
porter covering the Louis-Braddock
fight for the Daily Chronicle of
Georgetown. Eventually he sought
work opportunity here and at
tended college as a working stu
dent while eluding immigration au-
thorities. The war threw him into
war work in a Michigan steel mill
and later Providence shipyard.
Passport facilities were about to
be granted for Beyea's deportation
on a seven-year-old warrant of
overstaying of leave when a wire
from T. M. s managaing editor, John
2. Lewis, to Miss PAUL. Murray,
board member of the Workers De-
tense League, drew organized at
tention to his case. Morris Mil
gram, WDL national secretary,
acted promptly and assigned Ern-
est Fleischman, WDL attorney as
counsel. Bail of $500 was provided
by Alfred Baker Lewis, New Eng
land liberal.
The immigration board of ap-
peals is now considering a motion
for the reopening of the case.