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winter or other groups take up @e
lob when they stop. ...
Mr. Krug's telegram, received
nv the Star : News on Thursday,
reads: que to seriousness OF waste
paper situation the War Produc-
ton board joins with U. S. Victory
Waste paper Campaign committee
Of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers association in, appeal,ng for
adontion of paper trooper" pro-
cram wherever possible. Paper
trooper" program has now enlist
ed about one million school chill
dren and may be the foundation
Of national household waste paper
collection system which will insure
continuous flow Of waste paper
for the duration.
"Plan provides official recogni.
ton Of splendid work our school
children are doing and offers new
incentives for greater effort"
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REP. H. P. FULMER
dies SUDDENLY

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1e.- Up -
Rep. Hampton P. Fulmer, 69-year.
old democratic, chairman OF t h c
house agriculture committee and
dean of the South Carolina dele
cation, died suddenly late today Of
a heart attack.
He had just stepped out of an
elevator in the Methodist building
annex, where he and Mrs. Full
mer. had an apartment, when he
stumbled. The operator went to his
assistance and helped him into the
apartment. Within few minutes
the congressman died.
Mrs. Fulmer was away at the
time but returned a short time
later.
Rep. John W. Flanagan, Jr.,
D-Va) moves up to the commit
tee Craftsmanship. ~.
Fulmer's death cuts the number
of democrats in the. house to PA
compared with 212 republicans.
This is the lowest number of DEM
ocrats in IL years. There are four
minor party members and five va
cancies. s' 3
The South Caroliniarl had served
IL consecutive terms in the house,
having first taken office March 4,
1921.
He had been chairman of the
agriculture committe since 1910.
Throughout his legislative career
and especially since he attained
the Craftsmanship, Fulmer devoted
himself to legislation designed to
better the lot of the dirt farmer. l"
A subject of particular interest
to him was what he called the I'M
justified Spread between prices
received by the farmer for his pro-
duction and the prices paid by the
ultimate consumer. y.
Farmers, he maintained, W r e
injustly penalized for t he heavy
cost represented by. the dispropor-
tionate share of food costs taken
CONTINUED ON Page Two: Col. 81
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Hurricane Raced Cuban
Port; Death Toll No1u ~

HAVANA. Oct. 19.-lRESurgi-
dero de Batabano, south Cuban
coastal port built on lowlands and
over water, was destroyed by
Yesterdays hurricane, and its
fishing fleet of more than 20
schooners driven as much as nalf
mile inland, reports from the
hard-hit area said tonight.
While tanulations rose to an es-
timated "a dead, and U. S. au-
thorities began planning relief
to stricken parts Of the island, it
appeared that the Isle of Pines,
although badly buffeted, had es-
capped heavy damage.
The tiny island, to the south
Of Cubt, has a population Of TO-
900 and extensive North American
The principal city,
Nueva Corona, reported fallen
trees and damaged houses, but
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GERMANY ECHOES
AIR RAID ALARMS

LONDON, Friday, Oct. 20.-LR-
Air raid alarms were sounded ear.
ly today in southwestern Germany
as the Berlin radio reported a
strong formation of Allied bomb
ers was over the Rhineland again,
following up the heavy American
daylight raid yesterday by more
than 1000 heavy bombers. Those
planes blasted the Rhinelan6 war
industry cities of Mannheim and
Ludwigshafen with 5000 tons OF
explosives.
Mainz, another Reich industrial
city As miles to the north, was at
tackled also in a change of pace
for U. S. Eighth air force Liberia
tors and Fortresses which had hit
Cologne four times during the last
four days. .,-.-
The Germans at Mannheim were
still digging out from under de-
bris of a raid by Raj Mosquitoes
last night when the American hea-
Wy ,bon.bers released their 1000
Founders through a thick overcast
from attitudes at which tempera-
lures ranged as low as so below
zero. ea
The Mosquitoes also hit Hanno-
YER. IT'S miles west Of Berlin. One
Raj bomber failed to return.
Thunderbolt and Mustang pilots
reported no substantial air oppose
ton. over the three daylight tar
gets, but bomber crews said the
flax was terrific. .
blow at Mannheim support.
ed American armies punching at
the center of the Siegfried line,
since Mannheim is a railway sup.
ply base as well as a home for
Nazi industry producing tanks,
guns and trucks. The noted I. G.
Farben factory is at Ludwigshafen
where a two-mile-long plant manu-
features oxygen, synthetic, oil and
other chemicals.
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Blind Solve Production
Puzzle For Contractor

DENVER, Oct. 49, R - Nine
blind persons have solved a pro-
duction dilemma for a Denver
contractor manufacturing rifle
cleaning thongs for the Army.
Knots which had to be tied in the
thongs were slowing up work; 1888
an hour was the best output.
Two blind employees hired as
an experiment did so well seven
more were empoyed. They STEP
ped up the output as much as ITS
per cent, one Of them tying 1000
knots in seven and half hours.
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BRITISH ADVANCE

LONDON, Oct. 10. -R- Bri-
fish troops advancing southwark
from captured Venray ploughed
3 IL miles deeper into the Ger
man Mas river bridgehead in
Holland today and with strong
American force converged upon
the key town of Amerika, astride
one of the main railroads leading
eastward into Germany's indus
trial northern Rhine,and.
The Germans, given no respite
after their costly defeat at Ven
ray and faced with possible en-
trapment on the Mas west bank,
began hastily retreating from
strong positions northeast of Ven
ray, and to the south and SOUTH
west fell back before powerful
American and British drives. It
was the eighth day Of an Allied
offensive to eliminate the Ger
man Mas salient and prepare
Continued ON Page Two; Col. ~
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Foreign, Affairs Take
First Campaign Place

dent Roosevelt brought formal
State Department reply taking is
sue with some of the Republican
candidates remarks concerning
the arnistice with Romania.
Senator O'Manoney of Wyoming
also attacked the republican nomi-
nee's statements. He said Dewey
'recklessly demands what amounts
to an open break with Russia while
the war is still on"
The White House itself was silent
on the subject but President
Roosevelt undoubtedly had copy
of the Dewey speech at hand as
he began drafting the address on
foreign policy which he will deliver
before dinner of the Foreign Pol
Continued On Page Two; Col. ~
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Holland may be regarded as a
curtain-raiser for a new major
offensive"
Another said: Between Find
hoven and Nijmegen, the Second
British army is regrouping and
reinforcing formations with one
infantry and one tank division,
also with parts Of an American
tank division. Preparations for a
further Allied major operation be-
tween Waal and Mouse are i'll
progress" ~
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CARRIER FORCES
CONTINUE ATTACK
u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTES, Pearl Harbor. Oct. 10

u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTES, Pearl Harbor Oct. Is
- up -Halsey-Mitscher carrier
forces renewed their relentless at.
tacks on the Manila area Oct. 16
II and 18 and bagged an addition.
al 80 airplanes, sank six ships
and damaged %.
These figures, announced by
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz in {
communique tonight, increased the
destruction on the japanese since
Oct. 9 through Oct. Is to 1888;
plus planes, So ships sunk and 121
ships damaged in the Ryukyus
Formosa and the Philippines.
In addition, rs small craft were
destroyed and 80 damaged.
Most important currently is the
naturalization of Japanese ar
fields in the Philippines, particu
larly the Manila area.
With radio Tokyo reporting Gen
Douglas Macarthur landings o.
SULTAN and Leyte in the centra!
Philippines, the steady Halsey'
Mitscher poundings would proven
the Japanese from counterattacH
ing by sea and air.
japanese air power must %
virtually eliminated from the en-
tire Philippines, with Adm. wa
liam F. Halsey, Jr.'s planes keep
ing the Manila sirfields knocked
fcontinued ON Page Seven; Col. y
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devastation generally was less
than expected.
A Pan American Clipper, car
rying government officials on
relief survey, found that Havana
and its environs apparently had
been hardest hit, although all of
western Cuba is expected to face
a food shortage. United States
nelp already has been offered BY
Ambassador Braden
Associated Press Correspondent
Guillermo Rodriguez reported af-
ter tour Of the outlying regions
that fifty per cent Of the crops
were destroyed, and 80 per cent
Of the tobacco warehouses dam.
aged. Heaviest property damage,
he said, was in western Pinar Del
Rio.
All U. S. residents in Havana
were reported safe and uniniur.
ed.
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Reds h
WithBigArmy
WELL ACROSS BORDER
Berlin Broadcast Admits
Russians Digging Deep
er Into Reich

LONDON, Friday, Oct. 20.
= up = A huge Red army,
composed of Moscow and Sta
lingrad veterans and sup
ported by waves of tanks and
planes and hundreds of big
Soviet guns, has begun the
first Russian invasion of pre-
war Germany, smashing sew
eral miles into East Prussia
and still was making Roadway
at midnight, Berlin announc-
ed early today.
The fall of Eydtkau, border town
81 miles east of the ten-way juno
ton Of Insterburg, and 81 miles
from the East Prussian capital OF
Konigsberg on the German Baltic
coast. was announced officially
yesterday by the German high
command.
Moscow, as is usual at the un-
folding of important operations,
kept silent about the offensive
which Berlin said was backed by
600 tanks and supported at both
ends of flaming 2O0-mile front by
two other massive armies attack
ing on the northern and southern
ends of the imperilled Junker
homeland.
A dramatic midnight broadcast
from Berlin quoted German front
correspondent as saying that the
Russians still were digging deeper
into the ancient land of the Teu-
tonic knights, and adding:
mo battle in the East has ever
seen such concentrations of Rus
sian air forces and seasoned cam
paigners cannot recall similar
surfeit of Russian artillery and
tanks"
Another broadcast made earlier
said the Russians possessed IAN
unheard of numerical superiority. ="
While the Germans often en-
phasize their own inferiority dur
ing severe Nazi reverse, Moscow
dispatches previously said that the
Russians had massed tremendous
force along the East Prussian from
tier. where an army has been
poised for two months.
Berlin said German reserves
were being rushed to the front,
presumably these include units Of
the new home army of all males
between 16 and so, whose forma-
ton Gestapo Chief Heinrich Hmm
Ter announced Wednesday in a
speech somewhere in East Prussia.
Without. mentioning the East
Prussian sector the Moscow radio
last night said ''the war has enter
ed its final STAGE now that Soviet
armies are swarnling into Czecho-
slovakia on a 171-mile front, bat
Ting German-Hunga-ian forces
around the strategic road and rail
hub of Debrecen in Hungary, and
annihilating Axis, troops in Bel
grade, invaded Yugoslav capital.
Continued on Page Two; Col. -
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By The Associated Press

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR,
yet, l9.-American landings in the
Philippines by forces under Gen.
douglas Macarthur at two points
winch would raise an immediate
,nfeat Of cutting the Archipelago
IN half were reported extensively
,,ooay by Tokyo radio without AL
Aec confirmation.
General Macarthur, who has
vowed Il shall return" issued his
regular communique which told OF
/ neaVy plane raids from his theater
against Mindanao, southernmost OF
!. tle Philippines, on Tuesday - the
uay Tokyo said the reinvasion be-
gan The communique went no far
'her than that.
Adm. Chester W. Ninitz, whose
,Ommuniques have reported pro
lOhsec carrier plane onslaugbts or
@e Philippines this week, follow.
my naturalization raids on the Ry.
aaaayus-tormosa line of reinforce
Wohtlnued on Page Two: Col. 81
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Only heavy rain ana moderate
ly heavy winds had been felt here
up until 11:45 o'clock last night,
as the hurricane moved up the
state, and reports indicated that
the storm probably would not
reach hurricane proportions in
this area, but high winds were
expected to strike some time be.
tween l and a. m, today. Red
Cross, Coast Guard and the Tide
Water Power company were on
the alert but a definite lull in
winds and tides at Southport and
Wrightsville Beach was reported
about 1880 p. m.
At 1920 p. M, the. wind at
Southport was reported to, have
slowed down to 80 miles an hour
and the barometer had been
standing at 1910 for an hour. The
tide was said to be normal and
no unusual high tire was noted,
a Coast Guard report said.
A 1920 p. m. report received
by the Coast Guard said that the
storm had struck Charleston with
winds from so to 10 miles-an-
hour and that the city was in
darkness.
The winds in Southport at 10
0. m. had reached a velocity of
from so to IS miles-an-hour, vary
ing according by gusts, an Off
cial Coast Guard report said.
The barometer reading at
Wrightsville Beach at 1910 p. m.
was 1888, a drop from the $50
p. m. reading of 1912, Weather
Bureau representative reported.
He said at 10:40 p. m. that the
wind was very strong and a
heavy rain was falling. The tide
was quite high with the wind
from the northeast.
Residents who had not already
left the. beach, in response to the
4 p. m. warning from the Weather
Bureau, were told at 10 p. m. to
leave Immediately, he added. They
were given plenty of time to leave
before clark and preparations for
shelter in Wilmington we're made
for those who had no place to stay,
he explained.
Communications lines Of the At
lantic Coast Line Railway were
down south Of Florence, but ID
lines were reported down north of
Florence, an II p. m. report said.
Trees were blown across A. c. L.
tracks between Charleston and Mt.
Holly and slight damage was re-
ported done to several day coach
es.
Tide Water buses were sent to
Wrightsville Beach to bring into
town all persons who wanted to
leave and IL Queen City buses
were sent to Carolina Beach. Att
9:15 p. M, Red Cross workers at
the disaster committee headquar-
Continued on Page Two: Col. ~
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BY The Associated Press

Foreign affairs pushed further t.
the forefront in the presidential
campaign yesterday Thursdhy)
with democrats hitting back at
Governor Thomas E. Dewey's Tor
eign policy speech and one decar-
ing that republican economic SO
lationists'' hope torepeat the CON
spiracy of 1920" against the Lea tue
of Nations.
The latter charge came from
James M. Cox, the 1920 democratic
presidential nominee who h d
Franklin D. Roosevelt as his run
ming mate when he lost to Warren
G. Harding.
Dewey's Wednesday address it.
lacking what he called the pr
sonal, secret diplomacy" Of Prei-
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Rv The Associated Press


American invasion of the
philippines - almost two and
| /, half years after the fall OF
] Corregidor = was reported
Inv radio Tokyo Thursday.
| Japanese reports said Amerl-
| can amphibious forces, from
fleets commanded by Gen.
| Douglas Macarthur and Ad-
| miral Raymond Spruance, hit
| the east-central Philippines
and apparently landed fight
| ing men on small SULTAN is
land, in the mouth of Leyte
gulf only 400 airline miles
southeast of Manila.
There was no American confir-
nation of Nippon reports that
I Macarthur had carried out his de-
clared determination of March II,
| 1912. when, upon landing in Aus
traHs from the Philippines, he
said % shall return
The japanese Domei news agen-
cy said in a broadcast monitored
by the Federal Commune atoms
/ Commission, that U. S. forces had
begun their ''reinvasion of the
Philippines backed by naval guns
Of the Pacific fleet and planes fly
ing from bases in China. The Chi
ma coast is approximately 1000
miles west Of Leyte island.
Domei said the invasion started
Monday, U. S. time 1t asserted
part Of the enemy forces seem to
have landed on Suluan island"
A Japanese imperial headquar-
tiers communique pictured the zen
envy fleet of warships and troop
transports as pushing into Leyte
gulf after shore defenses had been
blasted with naval shells and aer-
lal bombs for two days. The Jap
aneSe said their forces were oppos-
ing the invasion.
Domei claimed that u. S. Task
Force 50, the mighty carrier arma-
ia Of Vice Adm. Marc A. Mits-
cher that has blasted the Ryukyu
Islands, Formosa and the northern
Philippines since Oct. 9, was not in
the Leyte gulf cation.
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DAMAGETO
CITRUS CROP
Little Damage Done In
jacksonville; Beach
Homes Destroyed

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct.
19.-P)-A tropical hurri-
cane swept northward tonight
along the south Atlantic coast
after crossing Florida, caus-
ing two deaths in Miami and
estimated damage of $780,
100000 to the states citrus
crop.
The weather bureau said the
storm probably would reach a
point off Cape Hatteras early Fri
day and pass out to sea.
Relatively little damage occur
red at Jacksonville, but nearly so
beach houses were destroyed by
wind and tides at Fernancina
beach, Is miles northward.
In the populous Sarasota-Tampa-
st. Petersburg area, where the
hurricane moved inland at dawn,
beach residents were evacuated
and no loss of life was reported.
Damage to property in Florida
was estimated in the millions of
dollars, but no single area seemed
severely hit.
Although the storm lost some of
it's force as it moved seward hur-
ricane warnings were ordered
hoisted from Florida to the vlr-
GINA capes. Winds of go to 30 miles
an hour were forecast as far north
as Cape Hatteras.
At Key west, six naval vessels
were driven aground but none was
seriously damaged and there were
| no casualties. A navy tug which
removed 81 men from an abandon
ed 1ightship reestablished radio
communication today and reported
all aboard were safe.
The Miami dead included an Nm
identified enlisted seaman, who
was killed when his motorcycle
crashed into the main gate of the
Miami Naval Station before dawn
today.
Earlier a night Waterman, Ron.
ME Tobias Mangams, 60, was cleo
trocuted when 23,OO0-volt power
line fell on him.
Winds of 60 to 70 miles an hour
accompanied the storms passage
over Jacksonville. Numerous plate
glass windows were broken and
trees uprooted. Shipyard workers
were permitted to leave their jobs
before the storm struck. Schools
also were dismissed.
The citrus loss estimate came
from Gaynor Virgins, secretary.
treasurer of an Orlando company.
He said the grapefruit crop loss
might be from 40 to 60 per cent
and the orange crop damage IS
to 20 per cent.
High tides were caused along the
coast and winds in some places
reached 100 miles an hour velocity.
The storm was accompanied by
heavy rains.
hurricane warnings were post
ed as far north as the Virginia
Capes. The weather bureau pre-
dicted gales, hurricane winds and
heavy rains for the Georgia and
Carolina coast.
At Atlanta, Regional Red Cross
Director John c. Wilson said work.
ers had been alerted along the At
lsntic coast to Wilmington, N. c.
He advised evacuation from Hat.
teras to Kitty Hawk and Manteo,
an area just recovering from q
Sept. IA hurricane. He said heavy
waves were expected in that area.
From eight to IS Red Cross work.
ers have been in the Hatteras area,
headquartered at Avon, N. c., for
the past month and they were or.
dered to remain on duty during
the present emergency. Army
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. H.
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City Alerted
If Hurricane.
Should Come
A Washington advisory is

A Washington advisory is
sued at 1890 midnight said
the hurricane had moved slow
ly north or northeast during
the past three hours and was
then centered about As miles
southwest of Charleston.
The Wilmington weather bu-
reau said at 1880 o'clock this
friday morning that winds
here would reach their highest
velocity at about 4 o'clock and
probably not exceed As or so
miles an hour.
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AACHEN. Oct. 10. - {

AACHEN, Oct. IS. - E -
Instances indicating . break
down in the solidarity between
German civilians and their
military In this battered city
were reported tonight by = Sc
nior American staff officer to
be resulting from the harsh
ness Of military rules and the
desire of some civilians to get
out Of the war.
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WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina: Mild Friday. dim
inishing winds and rains ending IN At
eastern standard Time)
@(By U. 8. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1850 PM. yesterday.
Temperature
1880 am, s.; 7:3 Dam. So: l:S0 pm, 70;
7:30 pm. 81.
Maximum II: Minimum 81: Mean ss;
Normal g..
humidity
1880 am. 81: 7:30 am. So: $50 pm, %:
1880 pm. 100.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7:so pm
055 inches. ),
Total since the first Of the month
3.72 inches.
Tides For Today
(F'rom the Tide Tables published by
~. 3. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington ------------- LISA 6:34s
lisp 7:14r
Masonboro Inlet ------- S:22a 500;
9:27p 3:b0r
Sunrise, sal am; Sunset, $50 pm
Moonrise, s:3e am; Moopset, 1853 pm
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Adm William Halsey the
direct sahng attacks the
command is Vice Adm W. A. Lee M Of Malice Ky spakplug Of
Vice Adm S. Mccain formerly deputy chief Of
direct charge Of carrier units Third Fleet
b. As. fsss
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INVASION OF
| PHILIPPINES
CONFIRMED
|unoh;biious Forces Said
T. Have Landed On
Suluan Island

General MacArthur's
headquarters in the Phil
innines. Friday, Oct. 20:
I9p-(Army Radio Pool
F Rr1oadcast) - American
INVASION of the Philip
mines was officially pro-
Claimed today by Gen.
Douglas Macarthur.
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FORECAST

,r;,,nington and Vicinity: Mild with
,."VSi i.ishig winds and rains ending in
afternoon.
u;eh 71-Low 81. =.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
HollyUood Gossip
SUITS FOR YOUTH

Eileen McClory, young Cover Girl who will play herself in Columbia s Cover Girl" gives you her formula for junior suits planned to play a leading role in limited young ward robes. First, a suit that looks like a drees-to take South in the win ter. to live in all summer-of grey flannel with ilver-buttoned lum- er-packet, collar and cuffs of white pique, slender skirt. For work and for shopping, Eileen chooses a clas- sic but handsome red flannel suit with an all-around pleated skirt, a long cardigan jacket with hand picked edges. For luncheon and on into dinner and dancing, Eileen recommends a soft suit of pale blue wool. with high, curved lapels, waist-length jackets and big plaid bow. Last, she has working plan for a perfect suit-bag-sling fat envelope of black leather over your shoulder, and pin silver insigne to the flap.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-17
BOGEY DROPS BOMBS

Humphrey Bogart, currently en- tertaining troops in the African and Italian war theaters. plays the bombardier of a bombing plane in Passage to Marsei!ie"