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Evening star., 1944-10-12
Eisenhower Predicts Hard Job
Bans Fruternizinq in Reich

rely on It's coming at any given time
The threat Of the Red Army in the
East and the Allied army on Ger.
man soil in the west can have NJ
effect on the leaders who face tn.
loss of everything once they admit
defeat, in Gen. Eisenhower's op.
ion.
He told correspondents today:
I have every confidence in the
peoples Of the United States, Great
Britain, France and all the United
Nations to see this war through tc
hnal victory. and as long as they
will see 1t through, I know that
the soldiers and sailors and airmen
possess the indomitable win to win
We have hard job ahead, but VIC
tory is certain"
The general appeared in excellent
health.
Gen. Eisenhower said the Allied
armies were entering Germany es
conquerors and would treat the
Germans Justly.
In Germany there will be no
fraternization," the commander
said: I'VE 60 in as conquerors. We
shall treat them justly in con-
formity with civilized standards as
exemplifed by our governments. We
(see EISENHOWER, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1944-10-12
JAPS REPORT 1000-PLANE FORMOSA RAID
Going On.
After 8 Hours,
Tokyo Asserts
Another Pounding of
Bolikpopon by 100
Aircraft Announced
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A 1,000-plane raid on Formosa
today was reported by the Tokyo
radio, which said Allied planes
attacked the island off the China
coast from early morning until
midafternoon Japanese time.
The broadcast, heard by the Fed
eral Communications Commission,
said attacks were directed against
the "entire area" of Takao, Tainan
and Taichu, three of the most inn
portant towns on the island. All
three are on the railway which runs
the length of the island. Tainan
and Takao are ports on the south-
western shore.
A broadcast beamed to Italy indi-
Gated that other towns along the
railway were hit by fighter and
bomber planes"
An imperial communioue reported
that enemy aircraft" came over at
am. (Tokyo time) "in strength
and the air battle was continuing
eight hours later.
Tokyo Claims 100 Planes.
Tokyo claimed that in the first
six hours of the mass assault zap
proximately 100 enemy planes" were
shot down.
The enemy continued to carry
out his persistent attack" Tokyo
said, "raiding with a total of 1000
planes"
While the raid was in progress, q
japanese Domei news Agency re-
port said, Admiral Kiyoshi Hase-
gawa, governor general of Formosa,
was received by Emperor Hirohito
for 20 minutes to make a detailed
report on wartime Formosa" Hase-
gawa has been in Tokyo for a week.
so they have come at last"
Domei quoted the admiral as saying
when he heard Of the raid The
enemy is very audacious, but we,
too, have made every preparation
to meet him"
The Japanese reported the For
mosa assault shortly after the Tokyo
radio told of another raid Tuesday
on Balikpapan, important Borneo
oil base. The Balikpapan raid.
Tokyo said, was made by nearly 100
Liberators and 30 escorting fighters,
and followed Sunday attack on
that area which Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur announced today.
Sundays assault, Gen. Macarthur
said, lasted four hours and was the
fifth attack in recent weeks on the
center. which produces Is per cent
of Japan's aviation gasoline.
Raided Several Times Before.
The reported mass attack on
Formosa came on the heels of ex-
pressed Japanese fears that the pow
erful American aircraft carrier
force which hurled its planes two
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Col. W.M. Craigie, II
Cadet Corps Leader
Here d Years, Dies
Educator Suffered
Stroke Month Ago;
Officials Pruise Him

1t. Col. Wallace M. Craigie, II,
who retired in June after % years
as professor of military science
and tactics for the High School
Cadet Corps, died today in Wal
ter Reed Hospital. He had suf-
fered a stroke a month ago.
Public school officials issued state
ments praising the work of the
colonel, who had served a year past
normal retirement age at the re-
quest of the Board of Education.
Funeral services will be held al
3:15 pm. Saturday in Fort Myel
Chapel. Cadets from all the high
schools will form a guard of honor
Burial with military honors will
follow in Arlington National Gene
terry. Flags were at half -staff on all
senior high schools today and also
will be at half-staff tomorrow. The
flag on the Franklin Administration
Building will be at half staff Satur.
day.
Col. Craigie is survived by hi.
widow, Mrs. Irene Hall Craigie, 370t
Massachusetts, avenue NV, ane
three cousins, the Misses Florence
and Lucy Mortimer, and Col
Charles Mortimer all of Washing.
ton
Col. Craigie was appointed pro.
fessor of cadets in the white high
schools in 1921, serving with full
Army pay. Placed on retired pay
in 1882, he voluntarily served fol
several years without additional
compensation until Congress placet
salary item for professor il
the school budget.
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi.
dent Of the Board of Education
praised Col. Craigie's influence or
the students.
Taught by Example.
by his example he taught his
philosophy-that the self-disciplinet
cadet becomes the leader of men,
she said. Thousands of young mer
on battlefields now are proving the
worth OF that teaching"
Robert L. Haycock, superintendent
of schools, declared:
THE city was fortunate to have
had at the head Of the cadets, 9
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Russians Push
Into Hungary's S
Third City
Complete Collapse
Of Resistance
May Be Near
BY the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, Oct. 12.-Hungar,
appeared on the verge of a mill
tary knockout today as Russian
forces overran Magyar defenses
on a 120-mile front guarding
Budapest.
(The Russians have broken into
Debrecen, third largest Hungar-
ian city, on the Orient railroad
1l6 miles east of Budapest, the
Moscow radio said in broadcast
recorded >in London today. The
ancient city of 122,517 is an i'm
portant rail center which Allied
planes from Italy frequently
have bombed)
The developing debacle, with ap-
parent imminent collapse of Hun
garian resistance, emphasized final
disintegration of Hitlers Balkan de-
fenses. and indicated an early as
sault by the Red Army on Austria.
Troops Nearer Memel.
(To the north, the Russians
battled within S miles of the port
of Memel in a siege of growing
ferocity after invading what Hit
Ter considers German soil by oc-
cupying the town of Plikisi inside
the Memel metropolitan area. ac-
quired by Germany in the spring
of 1899.
(All along the frontiers of East
Prussia, the Germans reported
violent fighting.
"a "concentric attack" was
launched against Memel with
more than 200 Russian tanks.
Berlin said, emphasizing that
Memel was encircled. OF these 90
were reported destroyed, Is by
guns of German warships sup
porting the beleaguered garrison.
(The Germans said the Red
Army had renewed its assault on
Riga, capital of Latvia, with fresh
divisions and materie1. The Rus
slams have been at the edge of
the port for weeks.)
so Miles From Budapest.
The Army newspaper, Red Star
said Soviet troops already were more
than halfway from the Hungarian
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Polish Prime Minister
Arrives in Moscow
For Conferences
Will Confer Today With
British; U. S. May Toke
Port in EorIy ToIks
Nv the Associated Press.

0S tAc AsSuStntGu 1Icsb.
Polish government in exile
representatives flew to Moscow
today and the Polish question
appeared to be the next item on
the agenda of the Moscow con-
ference opened Monday by Prime
Minister Churchill and Premier
Stain.
Premier Stanislaw Mikola jczyk
with political and military statf oi
the London regime, arrived in the
Soviet capital by way of Lublin, the
seat of the rival Polish Committee
Of National Liberation, to renew
negotiations for q united govern
ment.
A few hours earlier Premier Stain
praised the industrial might of the
United States before q gathering al
the British Embassy and said that
without American aid the course OF
the European war might have been
different.
No time or place was set immedi-
ately for the first meeting between
MIR. Mikolajczyk and the Russians
It was learned that the United
States may be represented at the
preliminary discussions.
The Premier arrived at the Mos
cow military airport in a British
plane at noon. Suites awaited the
party at the Hotel Metropole.
After q brief luncheon Mr.. Miko-
lajczyk had a round-table discussion
with his aides and arranged to con-
fer with British representatives in
the afternoon.
Lublin Poles are staying at the
former Polish Embassy, half mile
from the Hotel Metropole, which Is
situated within two blocks of the
Kremlin.
The rival Polish regimes were in
vited to sit at the same conference
table, with Mr.. Churchill and Pre-.
mier Stain acting as intermediates
Accompanying the Premier fron
London were Foreign Minister
Tadeusz Romer, Prof. Ladisla.
Grabsky and Gen. labor, deputy
chief of staff of the Polish Army.
There was general belief that thu
Polish question would be settled on.
way or the other before Mr.
Churchill leaves Moscow.
The Importance of Polish recon.
Citation to the major Allies wa.
admitted on all sides in Moscow.
Asked about the outlook one mem,
ber of the Polish delegation said
I'VE are hopeful"
The London delegation was tn.
same which went to Moscow las
summer, except for the addition O.
Gen. labor. He was the first higf
Polish officer to visit the capita
since the Russian-P Polish rupture IL
1943.
It is a matter of common diplo-
matte knowledge that Mr.. Churchill
/Cn~ rOT V,rY
Evening star., 1944-10-12

like fostering sore in the path OF
the 1St Army-battered and beaten
by terrible weight of explosives,
but not destroyed. 1t is too big to
be wiped out entirely except by
weeks of steady pounding.
Fires Rise from Wrecked Buildings.
From a ridgetop overlooking the
city, however, fires and smoke could
be seen boiling up from exploding
shells and bombs and from wrecked
buildings in which the Germans who
declined surrender ultimatum were
hiding.
In move of utter folly late yes
terday, the Germans brought their
columns from the east toward
Aachen in broad daylight, to attack
the Americans virtual ring of steel
about the city. The two-pronged
assault force, estimated at division
strength, moved into the open under
direct observation of the Yanks.
More than 100 big guns, including
240-millimeter rifles, turned on these
columns, which moved into actor
at about dusk. A battle ragged fol
two hours Then the shattered en-.
emy columns fell back They hac
failed either to relieve or reinforcs
Aachen's defenses.
At 8 am. today the American
infantry began its move on tn,
ancient city of Charlemagne, driv.
ing toward the factory district OF
the northeast side, known as Schla.
chof, and toward Observatory Hill
which looks down on Aachen from
the northern edge of the city.
Hide in Ancient Caves.
"The enemy is hidden in ancien
caves, sewers and Easements which
are almost impregnable to air ant
artillery attack-but we'll take it,
a high-ranking officer said.
Despite the fires and smoke, in tn,
clear sunlight of noontime I coule
see the tall, blackened spire of tn,
cathedral in which Charlemagn,
was buried.
The dive bombers came over at II
am. They circled swiftly in tn,
(See WESTERN FRONT, Page A-3.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Lute Bulletin
Big Force Raids BoIoqno

ROME GA great force Of
American heavy bombers de-
livered one Of the most con-
ccntrated attacks Of the war
on German barracks, bivouaes,
stores and dumps in . rough
circle around besieged Bo-
logna, while Allied ground
forces deployed 10 miles from
the city. The force of Flying
F0rtresses and Liberators was
larger than that which left
Casino In ruins last spring.
Earlier Story on Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Castillo Near Deoth

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. IL tP.-
Former President Ramon Castillo
ousted by the generals revolt last
year, is near death and last rites
have been administered. A member
of the household said death was ex-
pected amy moment" Castillo is
72 and underwent two operations q
year ago.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Aochen's Water Supply Cut off
People Await Fate in Cellars
Roor Of Bombs Presents Striking Contrast
To Silence Of SIoping Hills Above City

small bodies, although just a while
ago one group numbered about 80.
Some of these prisoners told in
terrogators today that many civil
ians still in Aachen are boarding
bottles of wine and fruit with which
they hope to ingratiate themselves
with American trops.
The sun shone this morning, but
now, late in the afternoon, it is
raining again, slowly and coldly.
In the crown of hills that en-
circles this lost and tomblike city
the trees are dark and glistening
They are trees turning beautifully
brown and reminding you of every
pleasant picnic spot you ever knew
just like Rock Greek Park in WASH
Evening star., 1944-10-12
japanese Launch Attack
Is Miles From Kweilin
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, Oct. 12.-Japanese
forces have launched an attack on
Chinese positions % miles north Of
Kweilin, vital defense center OF
Kwangsi Province, the Chinese high
command announced today.
Fighting along the Human
Kwangsi Railway fiared suddenly
yesterday after the enemy was re-
inforced. The attacks were thrown
against defense positions about IL
miles west Of the Japanese-occupied
rail town Of Hingan and brisk Tight
ing still was in progress this morn
ing.
II the enemy should succeed in
preaching this sector he would be
in position to hurl . frontal at
tack against Kweilin or to bypass
the city.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
New York City Passes
1910 Registration Mark
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-Registra-
ton of New York City voters for the
presidential election reached 1,468,-
449 today. The three-day total for
1910 was 1888, ,480.
Registration continues through
Saturday here, while upstate reg
istry books will be open October 13
and IA and October 20 and 81,
Evening star., 1944-10-12
By DON WHITEHEAD,

Associated Press War Correspondent.
OUTSIDE AACHEN, Oct. H.
Infantrymen of the American LIST
Army moved against the burn
ing and wrecked city of Aacher
today after smashing a desperate
enemy effort to reinforce and re-
lieve the Nazi garrison.
(The German radio, admitting
American gains around Aachen,
today described the battle as
'the greatest ever fought on the
western front.'D
Lit. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges
doughboys attacked this morning
while heavy artillery pounded the
besieged Germans and divebombers
blasted their hiding places.
Fires burned in the southeastern
part of Aachen and gray smoke
drifted over the sprawling city.
Under a bright sun, Aachen lay
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Aochen Commander
Just Couldn't Yield
CITY of Emperors'
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Berlin said today that a lieu
tenant colonel named Leier
was in command of the garri-
son at Aachen.
A broadcast designed for
overseas propaganda use said
Col. Leier had given this reply
to the American surrender ulti-
matum:
Even as an American one
cannot ask city like Aachen,
where 81 German emperors
were crowned, to surrender"
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Stimson Omits Weekly
Army Casualty Report
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSoclhted Press.
Secretary Of War Stimson omit
ted his weekly report on Army
casualties today, explaining that
the system OF compiling the figures
Is being revised.
He said the present method has
not been sufficiently up to date to
meet requirements and I'VE are
now taking care Of that"
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Mail DeudIine Extended

The Post Once Department to-
day extended by one day-to Mon
day, October 16--the deadline fol
the mailing Of Christmas parcels to
military personnel overseas. The
action was taken "as q public con-
venience." since the previously an
nounced deadline OF October Is
falls cn-a Sunday.
Evening star., 1944-10-12

days earlier at the nearby Ryukyu
Islands was still lurking" IN the
area.
Tokyo said some of the 400 planes
making the Ryukyu assault had
swept to within 200 miles of For
mosa. Admiral Chester w. Nimitz
has announced that 80 planes and
So surface craft were destroyed in
the Ryukyu Islands, where the Japs
were caught completely by surprise.
Formosa was raided a number of
times by small groups of land-based
Liberators of the 14th United States
Air Force before they lost most Of
their forward bases in East China.
$50 long as Formosa is in the
hands of the japanese" Admiral
Nimitz said earlier this week, ..it will
be very strong point, as they can
(See FORMOSA. page A-41
Evening star., 1944-10-12
BY WILLIAM SMITH WHITE,


WITH AMERICAN TROOPS
AT THE EDGE OF AACHEN,
Oct. 12.-Its water supply wholly
cut off, its food running low and
it's people covering for the Sec
ond successive day in Easements
and sewers, Aachen huddled
miserably this afternoon under
the 1st Army's unending air and
military bombardment.>
Slowly the city is being drained
of all life. Little groups of civilians
are creeping out and into our lines
Soldiers-those who can escape the
watch placed over them by their
oficers-are coming out in similar
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Hungorions Reported
To Have Approached
Allies for Armistice
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-THE
London radio said in a broad
cast recorded by CHS today
that its Stockholm correspond
ent reported that "the Hun
garians have got in touch with
the Allies, asking for an
armistice."
If the results are satisfac-
tory, it's likely that a Hun
garian delegation will go to
Moscow shortly" the Stock
holm correspondent was
quoted.
Evening star., 1944-10-12

Romanian border to Budapest, which
would place them less than so miles
from the capital.
The Hungarian Army was reported
in the utmost state of confusion
with its elite divisions trapped ir
Northern TranSylvania or scattered
among the Carpathian passes OF
Ruthenia. Neither the army nor the
people appeared willing to fight an
hour longer on the side of Germany
Red Star said.
Moscow military sources expressed
belief that the German high COM
mand already Is reckoning on Hun
gary's complete elimination from
the war.
Russian and Romanian forces yes
terday captured Szeged, second larg-
est city in Hungary, and Cluj, CAPT.
tai of Pennsylvania, with general
advances elsewhere on the Balkan
front. (Marshal Tito announced
that Russians and Yugoslav Partisan
forces had surrounded Belgrade.)
Nazis Thrown Back.
Meanwhile. it was indicated herr
that the battle for East Prussia wa.
under way, with the Germans beinl
thrown back from their border de.
lenses Is miles northeast of tn.
fortress city of Tilsit.
A Soviet column, following the
Tilsit- -Siauliai highway and rail-
road, pressed back German infantry
while low-flying Red Air Force
Stormoviks slashed at the Nazi
ground forces and turned green
camouflaged tanks and self
PEELED guns into blazing wrecks.
A second column pushed forward
along both the north and south
banks OF the Niemen River, and at
the closest point was less than &c
miles east of the city's Notifications.
There was no Soviet confirmation
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Todoy's Political
Broudcusts

9:25 pm.-WMAL, Senator
Murray, Democrat,
of Montana, speak
ing from New York.
1000 p.m.-WOL, Warren II.
Atherton, past COM
mander of the
American Legion,
speaking from New
York in behalf of the
Republican National
CoWmittee.
l0:l5 p.m.-WMAL, Quentin
Reynolds and Sena-
tor Wagner from
New York, and Paul
cite Goddard from
Hollywoo d, CAM
paigning for Roose-
welt and.Truman.
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Yank Infantry Drives on Aachen>
German Relief Effort Is Smashed
Nozis Call Bottle
Greatest Fought
On Western Front
BULLETIN.

nUIAIlE lin.
OUTSIDE AACHEN (P.-
American forces today beat
off day-long German counter
attacks in the Bardenburg
area, 6 miles north of Aachen.
MAP on Page AS
Evening star., 1944-10-12

There was no Soviet confirmation
on Berlin radio reports that the Red
Army had opened a fresh offensive
In Poland, in the area OF Rozan,
Evening star., 1944-10-12

(See CRAIGIE, Page Al.
Evening star., 1944-10-12

(See AACHEN, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1944-10-12

(See POLES, Page A-4.1
Evening star., 1944-10-12
Weather Forecast

Clearing, low near 45 tonight; fair to-
morrow, slightly warmer in afternoon.
Temperatures today-Highest, 66. at
1:30 pm: lowest, Al, at 4:40 am. Yes
terday-Highest,6 81, at $3.50 PM; low
est, As, at 7:58 am.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-29
Employment Problems
 Theme Of Conference
State Federal Officials to Attend Hartford Session;
 Waterbury Members Assigned to General Committee

gerald, state Manpower Director, Gov. Raymond 2. Baldwin, Arthur V. Qeary, Veterans Employment Representative for Connecticut, Wil- liam R, Nolan, field supervisor Of the War Manpower Commission and others.
 The panel for the one-day eon- ference includes a discussion on Easing Manpowcr Controls; "rhe Employment Service MohiliEeS for Post Victory Duties; '"The Return ing War Veteran and the Employ. ment Service; and "State Voca- tional Rehabilitation as Cooper ating Agency"
 A bushes meeting of the Con- noeticut Chapter Of the I, A, P, E. s, win be held Rt the conclusion of the panel discussion, Members of the executive committee making plans for the conference and banquet include; Mir. Dyer; Edna Harmon, Waterbury; Marie O'Donnell, Hart ford; Helen Coyne, Hartford; Ed ward Crook, Middletown; Willard Gray, New HaVen Arthur V. 0eary, Hartford; Florence ONeill, Bridge port; Mrs, Hildreth Peterson, Stam- ford; Leroy M. Purdy, Torrington, Doris Velette, Waterbury; Ruth Ford, New London; Elizabeth r. Drew, Willimantio; Helen M, by. nln, Tnompsonville and Betty Day, Norwalk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-29

Hartford, Sept, 2e.--Frominent state and federal officials will att tend the onc-day conference and banquet of the International Asso- citation of Public Employment Ser vices, Connecticut Chapter, which will be held in Hartford on SaSur- day, october 2, President Joseph P, Dyer announced today. The confer- once will be held in the House of Representatives Chambers in the State Capitol.
 More than 800 delegates, repres- enting state and federal employees from different towns and cities of the state will attend the one-day conference at which discussion will be held on Public Employ ment Service in the Post.War Period" The conference will ter- nlinate with banquet at the Hotel Gar0e at 6:30 in tho evening,
 President Dyer said that speakers who have been invited to atetnd inc clude O, D. Hollenbeck, Chief of the Veterans Employment Service in Washington, A, c. Gernes, Re. gional Director of the War Man. power Commission, William J. Fltz-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-29
News Of Connecticut

Hartford, Conn, September 20, - tUP) "A special committee of Norwich State Hospital trustees was scheduled to meet ct the State cap- itol today to continue It's inquiry Into conditions at the institution, to determine whether there was laxity in administration,
 The investigation was one of several started several weeks ago after two patients in the criminal Insane ward escaped. one still is at large. Steps were taken, fl1ean- while, to substitute Iron bars for screening on the windows Co pre-. vent further breaks,
 Hartford, Conn, September 20, - (Up) - Deputy Police Chief Mich. ael J. Godfrey headed a campaign today to wipe out gambling in Hart ford.
 Godfrey, appointed by the police board at the suggestion of Mayor William II. Mortensen, will act as ooordinator in Q drive to close horse betting establishments, gaming places, and to crack down on bingo, slot machines and other games Of chance.
 Tho campaign resulted from com. piaints that gaming laws were being flagrantly violated and the city was regarded aS wide open.
 
 Nv Haven, Conn, September 20, - (Up) Yale University an. nouneed today that Professor Elliott Dunlap Smith had been granted 6 leave-of absence for the remainder of the academic year. He has ace cepted appointment as fralk visiting professor of humaniStic and social