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DEWEY REVIEWS
+ PARADE IN N. Y.

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-R)-Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, here to regis
ter for the November election, re.
viewed $4,000 marchers in New
York's annual Columbus day pa.
rade today and later, after con-
ference with a Zionist leader, de-
clared himself in favor of 'the re-
constitution of Palestine as free
and democratic state.'
Dewey said in statement is
sued after his conference with DR..
Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland,
chairman of the executive commit
tee of the National Zionist
Emergency council, that sin order
to give refuge to millions of dis
tressed Jews driven f r m their
homes by tyranny" he favored
the opening Of Palestine to their
unlimited immigration and land
ownership"
GAS president" he said, IT
would use my best offices to have
our government wo- king together
with Great Britain to achieve this
81 eat objective for people that
have suffered so much and de-
serve SO much at the hands of
mankind
Arriving in the reviewing stand
Is minutes before the fist parade
contingent passed, Dewey led the
applause when Mayor F. H. La
Guardia appeared at the head of
10000 city employees. LaGuardia
saluted snappily in return. Later
the mayor returned to the review
ing stand and took his place with
Dewey and othel state and nation
al government officials.
Police estimated h a 1000, 1000
persons watched the parade, which
halted at St. Patrick's cathedral
for review by dignitaries of the
Roman Catholic church. Dewey's
classmates, meeting with him at
the Ambassador hotel, showed the
candidate a bust of himself by
Don Curran, New York sculptor.
It's much more attractive than
1 am" Dewey commented. j..
Kingsley Gould, chairman Of the
University of Michigan Alumni
committee for Dewey, said t h e
bust would be placed in an APP
propriate place at the university.
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Communists In France
Restricted To s Seats

PARIS, Oct. 12.-LR-The COM
munist party as such receives only
six seats out of 129 allotted to Or
ganized resistance groups IN
France proper in the new consulta-
tive assembly meeting to be held
during November, it was disclosed
in the assenbly's official journal
today.
The assembly will have a total
of 248 seats, with the largest num-
Der of seats, IL each, given to the
front national-a resistance group
led by scientists and other intellec-
tuals - and the c. G. T., leftist
labor group.
Among other organizations to
be represented the more conserva-
tive labor group, the French con-
federation of Christian workers.
receives four seats; the socialist
party, six; the radical socialist
party, six; the union Of French wo-
men, two, and the movement Tor
the return of war prisoners ana
deporters, four.
Four seats were allotted to the
popular Democrats and two each
to the farm and country workers
declarations.
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Near Tilsit
0nFrontier
PINCH EAST PRUSSIsI
HurI Germans Back On
llO-Mile Front In
West Lithuania.

LONDON, Friday, Oct. 10
-(B - Russian troops bat
tied their way to within nine
miles of the big German raj
center of Tilsit yesterday
hurting the enemy ba k
across the East Prussian from.
tier on a Homie front in
western Lithuania as they
prepared for their first cross
ing in strength into pre-wa1
Germany.
A M scow communicate an.
nounced that other Soviet forces
had driven to within five miles Of
Riga, Latvian capital, and to with.
ir IS miles of the west Latvian
port of Liepaja, steadily hacking
up the estimated 100000 Axis
troops cut off by the Red army S
salient which three days ago reach.
ed the Baltic coast north of i'm
pe-illed Memel.
Although the Algiers radio re-.
ported that Russian troops h d
broken into MemePs streets, and
Berlin said that furious tank bat.
tie was underway just a few miles
from the East Prussian port, the
Moscow Bulletin did not announce
any further gains in the immedi.
ate Memel area.
In the south other Soviet forces
captured the western Romanian
rail hub of Oradea, main escape
route for Nazi troops retreating in
Pennsylvania and drove another
spearhead to within 60 miles Of
imperilled Budapest as they wild.
ened their hold along t h e east
bank of the Tisza river, last big
water barrier before the Hungari.
an capital.
In northern Yugoslavia the Rus.
slams toppled Subotica, an eight.
way road add rail junction con-
Meeting the Axis front in Yugosla'
via and Hungary. Subotica is q
miles southwest of Szeged, Hun
gary's second city which fell to
the Russians, Wednesday.
Below the Danube river, R d
army troops and Marshal Tito's
partisans seized Smederovo, only
% miles southeast of Belgrade,
Yugoslav capital which appeared
to be on the verge of early liber-
alton.
A midnight Soviet bulletin an
nounced that the Russians had
reached the Baltic at second
point above Mcneil during the day
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MOSCOW, Oct. 12-LR-Premier
Stanislaw Mikoiajczyk, who flew
here today from London with other
leaders Of the Polish government
in-exile, conferred with British
Foreign Minister Anthony Eden
late today in the initial phase OF
negotiations for unity between the
London and Moscow-sponsored Po-
lish groups.
AS Mikolajczky and Eden con.
ferred. there was general bei1e1
that the differences between the
Soviet-sponsored Polish Commit
tee of National Liberation and the
London government-in-exile would
|be settled some way before Prime
Minister Winston Churchill ana
EPremier-Marshal Joseph Stain
close their conferences.
Itswas understood that the Polish
premier would see the highest
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TALKS.
OF. AID TO ITALY

WASHINGTON, Oct. IL. = @ =
President Roosevelt said tonight
that when the Allies complete mill
tary operations in Italy the Italians
Twill be free to work out their
own destiny, under government
of their own choosing" 49,
In a radio address prepared for
broadcast from the White House,
Mr.. Roosevelt said the American
Army entered Italy mot as con-
querors, but as liberators. Their
objective is military, not political. "
The president s address was di-
rected to the meeting OF the 1ta-
labor council in New
York in acceptance Of the coun-
ellis four freedoms award granted
to the chief executive.
"Of course, the people of Italy
have suffered terribly and it will
not be humanity possible to take
wholly adequate measures to re-
lieve all suffering until Germany
has been finally and decisively de-
feated,'' Mr.. Roosevelt said. But
the United Nations are determin-
ed that every possible measure
be taken to aid the Italian people
directly. and to give them an OPP
portunity to help themselves"
In New York, Attorney General
Francis M. 'Biddle presented the
four freedoms award with the de-
claration that President Roosevelt
maintained ''his faith in the Italian
soul" even when Italy under "cap-
tivity by the lackey Fascists" was
brought into war against the Unit
ed States.
Long, long after Mussolini is
only a half-forgotten nightmare, ="
Biddle declared, American and
Italian scholars will be discussing
their two great common heritages
the principles of Columbus-navi-
gator: and Of Observation-Disclosures"
Biddle. said it was the Presi-
dents ''settled , determination to
bring the provisions Of the Allan
tic charter to bear upon 1taly's
problems" "s"
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Bowles Sees Initiation
And Eventual Collapse

farmers, workers, businessmen
and government"
He said farmers must prosper
if they are to provide huge mar.
kets for manufactured goods, and
''our workers must be assured OF
high wage levels and high relative
purchasing power to buy the pro-
ducts Of mass production"
Business must prosper, he
continued. "Our national economy
can not be run without profits.
This means that we must encour-
age competitive free enterprise in
every possible way. 1t means
there must be sufficiently high
level Of total capital investment
to keep our whole economy in bal
ance and provide full employ
ment.
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|0NLY 100 MILES
OFF CHINA SHORE
MacArthur's Planes Blast
Balikpapan Refineries,
Destroy 80 Planes.
Nv The Associated Press

BY The Associated freSs
Formosa was hit yesterday
(Thursday) by 1000 Allied
bombers and fighters, Tokyo
radio reported, in the first
heavy blow at this enemy is
land fortress barring the way
to Allied landings on the Chi
ma coast.
The air war against the Nippon
csc reached new heights with the
Formosa attack, which, however.
has not been confirmed in an AL
lied communique, and record
smash at Balikpapan, the Borneo
oil production center which sup
plies much of the gasoline and oil
for Japan's military machine.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur today
said five groups of big bombers;
escorted by fighter planes, plas-
tered ~Balikpapan's Tefineries with
1876 tons of explosives Tuesday in
the sixth and heaviest of recent
raids there.
It was the first escorted raid
on Balikpapen, the fighter planes
flying more than 1880 miles. Al
lied Spokesman said they believed
this to be war record for fighter
operational flights.
Macarthur communique said
the attack put the cracking plant
at Balikpapan totally and probably
permanently out of operation, and
heavily damaged the paraffin re.
finery. He did not state the bases
from which the planes flew.
AS in recent previous assaults
on Ealikpapan, the Japanese put
up stiff resistance. Macarthur:
said the raiders destroyed 36
enemy intercepting fighters and
possibly 10 more, while losing
three bombers and one fighter.
Tokyo said the attack on For
mosa, only 100 miles from China,
lasted eight hours and was prin-
cipally directed at Tainan and Ia
kao, port cities on the southwest
coast, and at Taichu, interior rail
center. The enemy communlque
said nearly 100 attacking planes
were shot down.
The Japanese said the raid was
the work of Vice Adm. Marc A..
Mitscher's carrier planes-part CT
Adm. William F. Halsey's Third
fleet - which two days before
smashed at the Ryukyu islands be-
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Tho Rev. Walter b. Freed, preSl-
s.ot Of the Community Chest
Rounds of applause greeted the
.oturns reported by, the campaign
,.,sers to their chairman, Ranald
c+evart. who was soundly COM
npnded for his able leadership.
The group waicnlng the prog
VOC of the chartings on the big
blackboard. tended by Chest Secre-
+s~v George L. Stearns, was only
tslf as large as had been planned,
the pouring rain having cut at
tendance sharply.
The totals at the end of the
counting revealed this story: Wo-
men,s sales army, $10,797. 46;
Mems sales army, $8,812.95; Ne
sro division, s1,O29.98; County -di-
Vision. s3,3l1.83; Unit divisions.
sl57, 869 O6; grand total, $181,817.28.
# was emphasized that more mon
ev will be reported by Monday
night. -.,.
At present, the 1945 Chest is ap-
proximately $4,000 short of the
collections last year. Decreased
nopulation, and reduced military
activities in surrounding camps
have figured in the decrease. In
proportion, the giving was greater.
The North Carolina Shipbuilding
company, through its spokesman,
Cecil Lewis, appearing for Paul A.
Wilson who served as shipyard
campaign chairman, announced its
corporate gift Of $35, 600, the same
amount given last year. Employees
of the yard and its subsidiaries
have filed incomplete returns of
S336O7.
The Atlantic Coast Line rail-
road, through H. ]. Borjes, acting
for Julian Fields, Coast Line cam
paign chairman, who is out of the
city, announced its employee con-
tributions of $14, 1874, and pledged
"even more by Monday.
Mr.. Stewart, who presided over
the meeting, disclosed that the
Special Gifts division, which open
ed the campaign on September Is,
collected over $4,000, under the
direction of Louie E. Woodbury.,
Jr.
The nights program was SIM
pie: an excellent dinner, served
by women of St. Pauls church,
brief messages by the Chest and
campaign leaders, singing directed
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
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Panic Spreads
In Germany A S.
Hungary Slips
By WADE WERNER

LONDON. Oct. 12.-R-Signs OF
panic multiplied in Germany to-
night as the Red army's advanced
units neared Budapest and the
prospect of Hungarian collapse
opened visions of grand assault
on Austria, the backdoor of the
reich.
Turkish sources said Berlin had
launched a last appeal to the
Hungarians to hold fast and not
abandon Germany, but the Nazis
themselves appeared to have little
faith that Hungary would or could
hold. They were busy urging Aus
TRANS to dig for their lives in from
tier defense spadeWork near Wen
ma.
ALI able-bodied men and women
in the Vienna region were at or
on their way to the diggings after
a mass Gallup Of age groups be-
Ween 16 and IS. Proclamations -.
pealed to them to follow the ex-
ample of East Prussians and
Rninelanders.'
The Ankara radio quoted Stock
holm advices tonight reviewing re-
ports that Hungary definitely had
asked for armistice terms.
In L n n, Czechoslovakia' S
President Eduard Benes received
Count Michael Karolyi, who was
president OF the short-lived Hun
garian republic established after
the last war, for discussion Of
future Observation-Disclosures re
lations-a hint that DR.. Benes ex.
poets important developments.
The Nazis warned Austrians liv'
ing away from the frontier against
spreading rumors, one rumor spe
cific ally denounced and denied was
to the, effect that Archduke Otto
Of Hapsburg, pretender to the Aus
trian throne, had married Premier
Stalin's daughter land Austria
would be spared"
In Budapest, the newspaper Pes,
ii Hirlap said Of the new front or
the Hungarian plain that ''thert
can be no question of a coheren
front line in this wide, flat area
The Budapest 'Deutsche Zeitung
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$3.50, 900 Pledged Here
For Postwar Expansion

create employment through great
er pa.yro1ls for returning service
men and the thousands. OF persons
who have come here on war jobs
during the emergency.
Tre association will be steerec
bv a committee comprised OF rep
resentatives of each OF the banks &
building and loan associations, inc
president Of the chamber OF com
merce. chairman Of the postwar
planning committee, and repre-
sentatives Of the Atlantic Coas
line Railroad and Tide Water
Power company. 50.
Anyone desiring to utilize any
mart Of the fund should make ap
plication to any Of the agencle'
represented on the committee
they will be put in touch VIII
tceutinued on Hags tn. o. >
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.o me most far-reaching plan yet
t+ Wv to encourage new indus
.a,, s 10 locate in New Hanover
s NV =, s35o,Ooo postwar fund
~. business expansion has been
M 't ,Isl, by 10 citizens, known as
n " Wilmington associates, Cyrus
em,a .losue, chairman of the city
tss a'''y postwar planning commit
~ NJ announced yesterday.
,ha aHe associates have indicated
4 NM Willingness to invest. up to
.nl .vu each in new enterprises OF
Aos guse fa;s -, Of existing ones,
ID '4 IL sad: The group was form.
eanit 70 underwrite the required
.p pdtsai for new or old business
ne pae fund can be drawn from i'm
sm@ ,a'ely, and in no limited
nsnt t'' lev, even though its establish
"aa primarily aimed Il
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WASHINGTON, Oct. r. Up =
Price Administrator Ches er
Bowles said tonight that this coun-
try '.has all the makings Of an
initiation and eventual collapse on
a far greater scale" than occur
red after the last war.
1.-THE whole tempo Of our econo-
my is stepped up to far higher
and potentially more dangerous
level" he said in speech pre-
pared for delivery before the
Washington Board Of Trade.
sThe answer lies in wholly
new concept Of America. It is
a concept in which everyone has
a part to play. It cannot be done
alone by any one group. We will
need the close cooperation OF our
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CARRIER FORCE
STRIKES LUZON

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR,
Oct. H.-R-A large force of
carrler-based planes struck Lu-
zon, the main island in the Philip
pines, Tuesday afternoon, blasting
ar bases and military insta1la-
lions, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
announced tonight in communi-
que. :
The admiral maintained silence
concerning japanese reports OF
powerful air smash at Fornosa.
1t was the third fleet action an
nounced in three days-the other
Two were attacks on Marcus and
Inc Ryukyus Sunday and Monday
MISUNDERSTANDING the wide
scope Of American warships in the
Pacific.
No details were given of dam.
,se caused at Luzon, On which
manila is located. the conmu.
nlque said the planes struck from,
atask force of the Pacific fleet
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TOKYO SAYS 1000 ALLIED BOMBERS,
lXEzafG1HzERS HAV ATTACKED FORlNOSA;
$50 PER CENT OF AACHEN DESTROYED
GERMANS PUTTING
PLANES into FIGHT
Yankees Wrest Factory
Suburb From Enemy;
Many Deserters.

LONDON, Friday, Oct. 10.
Up - The German high
command hurled $50 fighter
planes into the defense of
flaming Aachen last night as
American infantry wrested a
northeastern factory suburb
from the stand-and-die garri-
son and massed for the final
assault on this ancient inva-
sion gateway to the Reich.
Eighty-five per cent of Aachen
subjected to a greater ordeal by
fire than any part of the Reich
had undergone before - lay l..
smoking ruins, pilots reported af-
ter 500 tons of bombs were rained
during the day on this historic city
of German kings.
The swarm of Messerschmitts
and Focke- Wulfes droned over, ap-
parently bent on attacking the
siege lines, just as the last Ameri-
can bombs were crashing down,
and some U. S. fighter bombers
turned to attack with a ton of
bombs still dashed to their wings.
In the aerial melee, II German
planes were shot down, six were
damaged and two other probable
kills were registered, while four
American fighters were shot from
sky. ~ ~,
Out of the smoking, .rain-drench-
ed ruin that was Aachen struggled
few soldiers and civilians, I'M
willing to stand longer with the
!, 500 of the garrison who stree !
pm. yesterday have been plas-
tered with hundreds Of tons Of
shells and bombs from artillery
massed near the outskirts and
clouds of warplanes roaring over
in endless procession.
Fighting methodically from fac
tory to factory, the, doughboys
were routing the Germans in the
outskirts with rifle and grenade,
and a field dispatch said that
among buildings cleared were two
war plants. one making halftracks
and the other artillery wagons.
Continued on Page Tive; Col. 81
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$S3,o32,o0o ASKED
FOR N. c. SCHOOLS

RALEIGH, Oct. 12.|HLThe
State Board of Education today
asked the Advisory Budget COM
mission for total of $83,032, 0OO
to operate the states nine-months
school system during the next two
years, and recommended that the
base salary scale of teachers hold
ing ''A'' certificates be raised to
a minimum of $125 monthly.
The appropriations request, last
to be heard by the commission IN
it's BIENNIAL hearings and by far
the largest yet contemplated, calls
for an expenditure of Sal, 1893, 600 in
1945-46, an increase Of 1880, 600,
including war bonuses, over the
1944-45 fiscal year, and SAL 1884, 00O
to be spent in 1946-47, an increase
Of $685., 900 over the current year.
Of the total, $34, 1897 would be
spent for Institutional services, an
increase Of $2,671,78 over the 1914
IS fiscal year. This includes an
estimated 81, 701, 900 to take care OF
the increase in the "a" teacher
salary scale. A total of IS, 464, 622
would be spent for teachers in
1946-47, an increase Of $618, 725
over the current year..
The overall increase in expendi.
lures for Institutional service over
the biennium would total 1920, 900.
DR.. Clyde A. Erwin, state super
intendent of public instruction, told
the board that an increase in the
salary scale for "a" teachers sis
necessary if we are to hold our
high standard Of Institutional serv-
ice"
He told the board that 1897 "a"
certificate holders :. had left the
teaching profession in the last two
wears. 1--WE cannot expect many
Of these to return because Of the
high salaries they are receiving
elsewhere, he said. He pointed to
the fact that Of the 1,230 teachers
graduated in 1913 from the states
colleges, 900 were accepted TO I
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AMERICANS BLAST
NAILS AT BOLOGNA

ROME, Oct. 12.-LR)-American
planes in their greatest blow yet
in the Italian campaign delivered
a "Cassino-type" assault on Ger
man bivouacs and stores in the
Bologna area today, attempting to
blast a pathway into the Pc valley
for the U. S. Fifth army which has
been halted by Nazi death stand
in the Apennine mountains Just
southSof Bologna. ~,
The force of U. S. Flying Fort.
resses and Liberators was the
largest 18th Air Force armada
ever sent over a single target area
even greater than the one which
left Casino in ruins last spring
and was integrated closely with
powerful attacks by tactical medl-
UNI and fighter-bombers.
The heavy bombers cast a ire
mendous load Of augmentation
and demolition bombs on German
barracks, bivouacs, stores and
dumps in a rough circle around
Bologna.
Seven separate waves OF B-2s
Mitchells also swooped through
morning clouds on similar mis-
sion. but concentrated mostly or
enemy positions just a few miles
north of where the U. S. ground
troops were locked in fierce bat
tie with the Nazis.
Eight waves OF Thunderbo!ts
then attacked occupied buildings
lnA.a ~. pana Hxro. Col q
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Polish Problem Holds
Attention In Mosc0lu

Anglo-Soviet leaders before he
again met the chief members Of
the Lublin committee with whom
he failed to agree here two months
ago. Responsible d i p | m a t 9
sources did not attempt to mini
mize the difficulties still standing
in the way of a settlement.
Mikolajczyk, it was learned, ca.
ried no fblank check from his
cabinet for negotiations and even
if provisional agreement 10
reached at Moscow he must re.
turn to London and submit it to
his associates for approval. On
the other hand, Churchill is report
ed to be vigorously determined to
see some basis for Polish harmony
established before terminating his
own visit here.
CONTINUED On Page Ten, Col. o.
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DR.. MILNER ELECTED

GU1LFORD COLLEGE, Oct. "A.
.Llf'-Dr. Clyde A. Miner, presi-
ueil Of Guilford college, has been
.iecled secretary-treasurer Of. the
sre"ly formed Association OF
friends. . Colleges, it was an
.Ouneed here today, as result of
a.. recent meeting by representa-
yves OF Friends colleges at
SWarthmore, Pa.
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Community War
Chest Over TOP
With $181,817.28

The 1915 Community War Chest campaign is already
t past its avowed goal, with bounty Of $751; 81728
40 per cent of the soughor total was announced last
NIGHT at Victory dinner served to campaign workers at
St Pus Parish house "Once again. the people of Whining
I'm have demonstrated how large its heart
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Ho11,YWOop ENGAGEMENT

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 12.-tR,-
Wedding plans of Thomas William
Warner. Jr., son of a millionaire
auto parts manufacturer, and film
actress Anne Sterling became
known today with the announce
ment Of an engagement party,
planed originally as a wedding re-
cention. "1. ','.
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wilmington and Vicinity: Mostly clou-
dy and continued cool with light scat
tered rains in the east.
Yesterdays temperatures
High 73-Low 81.