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 Department said late yesterday the Irish reply "did not go as far as we would have liked in all particulars" A State Department offiical re- vealed that the Portuguese reply indicated Portugal was alert to the problem, but gave no assurances that refuge would not be granted. Portugal indicated, however, as did Fire, that it was not anxious to ad-. init such persons.
 The Argentine government, which the United States does not recog- nize, gave assurances through it's charge d'affaires here in Septem- Der that it would not harbor Axis criminals, but Hull insisted that the statement needed clarification and amplification. Later, Argentina gave Great Britain similar assur- ances, and the British indicated they were satisfactory.
 The Irish problem was first re- vealed in the British House of Com- mons yesterday when 8 govern ment spokesman said that Fire had declined to join other neutral na- tionS in refusing sanctuary to pro- scribed Axis war criminals and had reserved the right to shelter refu- gees at its own discretion. Fire was revealed to have notified Britain that since the beginning of the war it has denied admission to all aliens whose presence would be at var lance with the governments neu- trality policy or detrimental to Fires interests.
 The replies of the neutral gov- ernments indicate that none wants to admit Axis war criminals, and that all are aware of the reaction among the United Nations if they do. Sweden and Turkey, however, appear to be the only neutrals who have stated categorically that Axis criminals will not be admitted to their countries"
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NSOAAO444OC0 4IOA1k dHC U Manila Bay area of Luzon was the second this month. Planes from Ad- miral William F. Hansey's Third Fleet destroyed 448 Japanese planes and sank or damaged 30 ships in two-day strike November 4-5.
 Rear Admiral Frederick c. Sher- man commanded the task forces which carried out Sundays attacks. In addition to sinking or damaging IA ships, the carrier planes torpe- doed floating dry dock and scored direct hits on many docks in Manila Bay and at the Cavite Navy Yard.
 20 Planes Shot Down
 Eighteen of 20 intercepting enemy planes were shot down over Luzon and 10 others in attempts to attack the task groups. Another 13O to 14O single and twin-engined enemy planes were destroyed or damaged in strafing attacks on the Legaspi, Manila and Clark airstrips.
 One American surface ship was damaged, but aerial losses, if any, were not detailed in the announce ment of the attacks.
 Air attacks on the Manila area main Japanese base in the Philip pines, were regarded as part of the process of softening up Luzon for an eventual American landing. The attacks presumably will increase i.a scale and violence as the invasion grows nearer.
 Brigadier General Carlos P Ro- mulo, resident commissioner of the Philippines, predicted in broadcast from a liberated area of Leyte that the entire Philippines would be freed during the coming year. speaking in commemoration of the ninth anniversary of the establish ment of the commonwealth of the Philippines, he said:
 T foresee that instead of celebrat- ing the 10th anniversary of the com monwealth next year, we will see the inauguration of the Philippines Republic"
 Radio Tokyo also recognized that buzon soon may become a battle area. A broadcast recorded by EGG monitors said all residents of Manila between the ages of 18 and 50 would De compelled to defend" Japanese military installations, harbors, roads and factories in the capital area when the necessity arises" Gen. Douglas Macarthur revealed the new American attack down the west side of the Ormoc corridor in northwest Leyte in his daily com- munique.
 Striking through the mountains southwest of Pinamopoan, elements of the 24th Infantry division were threatening the Yamashita defense line below Limon, 20 miles north of Ormoc, Macarthur said.
 William c. Wilson, United Press war correspondent on the northern front. said doughboys had reached Tolibaw, two and a half miles south of Limon and less than two miles from junction with the 1st Cav airy division on Mt. Catabaran, east of the Ormoc corridor road. A Japanese regiment was facing entrapment in the Tolihaw area,
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Hundreds of thousands of Rhine flanders were said to have lost every thing they had, families were broken up, and children were missing, while efforts at reunion were thwarted by a breakdown in the mail system.
 Conditions were reported worst in Cologne, perhaps the most heavily bombed city in the world. The trav- elers said the remaining inhabitants virtually lived in the ruins of cave like shelters without gas, electricity or water.
 Informed quarters said there was another blind spot" in the German transport system, circle of 130 mile circumference around the Halle Merseburg and Bittefeld area com- prising the biggest industrial center in the Reich outside the Ruhr.
 They said the area was isolated by rail, and therefore disorders or other developments might be assum- ed, the nature of which is complete ly unknown"
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lands but the soaring fire of massed guns, tanks and flame throwers colored the horizon with brilliant flame. Burning farm houses added fuel to the huge bonfire.
 When troops dug in on the other side to rest preparatory to resum" ing the attack. some points were established deep into enemy posi- tions.
 It was known that the German exterior defense line was weakly held and stubborn resistance was not expected until the troops moved against the second line to where, it was believed. the German para troops planned to withdraw.
 Engineers worked through the night bridging a maze of canals to enable tanks and guns to follow the infantry assault troops.
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theory that capital loans and m- vestments "are actually deferred 1m- ports" with the burden lying heav- ily upon the creditor to assure that any foreign loans and investments made bring real economic advantage not only to the recipient country, but also to the country which ex- ports the capital. The danger con- fronting the United States today, in its extension of loans and in yestments abroad, is that it will not willingly face this economic reality and so adjust it's tariff schedules as | to bring about an excess of imports at some reasonably early date" 2-Way Affair
 The Americans noted that trade must be two-way affair with this country ready to receive goods from foreign nations, notably from its debtors so that they can pay oil their loans.
 The American group insisted upon long list of requisites for making foreign loans. It held that private enterprise must dominate and make the loans, that foreign nations pro- tect outside capital and property, that there be a relationship between foreign investments, management and know-how, and that there be local participation in equity capital of foreign investments.
 On the subject of taxation, the group laid down two cardinal princi- ples:
 "1. The host country should not impose unduly burdensome taxes on foreign capital or on it's returns. since such impositions on imported capital operate like tariff and tend to increase the price of all capital to its nationals, and may thus read fly become deterrent to natural development and expansion.
 g. The country in position to export capital should not levy ad- ditional taxes upon interest, dividends and earnings received from abroad. Such additional taxes reduce or eliminate the incentive to foreign investment by its nationals and place them at a disadvantage in competition with capital from some other nations, or with local capi- tai. The obvious and simple ap- proach to this is the outright ex- emption of business income derived from foreign sources"
 The conference will adjourn Sat- urday and move to New York for the farewell session on Monday.
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The 5th Division, stabbing through the southern suburbs of Metz, cap- tured Peltre, two miles southeast of the city proper, and was approach ing the outskirts of Magny, only one mile south.
 Grim Advances
 Despite cuttin winds, sleet and snow, three regiments of the Red Diamond 5th Division are closing grimly and steadily upon the city's southern outskirts and the Ger mans apparently are helpless to halt them," War Correspondent Richards said.
 Richards placed the 95th Divi- sion within two miles west of Metz approaching Moulns-Les Metz.
 Other front reports said the 3rd Army had narrowed the German escape corridor east of Metz to eight miles.
 In Holland, the British 2nd army smashed the Germans first line of defense west and southwest of Venlo and Roermond and pushed on toward the second and last defense line east of the NaN from tier. At one point, the British were within seven miles of the border.
 Attacking under cover of a ter rifle 400-gun artillery barrage at dusk yesterday, British tommies poured across the marshlandS, forced the Noorder and Wessen canals on the approaches to Roer- mond and Venlo and seized at least four bridgeheads.
 At least three of the bridgeheads two across the Noorder and one across the WeSsen canal-already have been linked and advances of up to three miles beyond the wa ter barriers were reported. Find, IT miles southeast of Eindhoven and 10 miles northwest of Roermond, was captured.
 Objectives Gained
 Ronald Clark, United Press war correspondent; reported from Mar shal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery Fist Army group headquarters that all first objectives were gained quickly with no major enemy re- action as yet.
 All enemy positions west of the Maas were found to be weaker than first supposed The Germans aban- doned Meijel, 12 miles west of Ven- To, without a fight, but the Brit ish did not enter the town imme- diately because of extensive min- ing and booby-trapping
 United Press War Correspondent Richard D McMillan' advancing with the End Army said the Brit ish literally unleashed ''searing wall of fire" against the German defenses in the opening hours of the offensive
 Tanks swept across the marshy approaches to the canals towing as- sault boats under cover of an ar- tillery barrage. Then troops push ed the boats into the canals and padded across while flame throw CTS spurted fire to the opposite bank and cremated any enemy troops who approached the banks.
 Get Wetting
 Some troops missed their footing and fell into the canals, but they swam the -foot-wide barriers and re-joined the assault. McMillan said.
 Sappers worked through the night by the light of flames kindled by
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Wilson said. The Japanese at- tempted a counter-attack late Mon- day, but were repulsed in bloody agnulng with d Ioss O1 $50 men. Main Force Other 24th Division troops were engaging the main Japanese force in the corridor itself just beyond Limon.
 To the southeast, 1st Cavalry division troops reached Mt. Laao, IS miles southeast of Limon and II miles northeast of Ormoc. Units of the 96th Division advanced eight miles across rugged terrain and reached 3-474-foot Mt. Alto, three and half miles farther southeast and also II miles northeast of Or moe.
 Twelve miles south of Ormoc, the 77th Division repulsed g. Japanese attempt to land on the west coast behind their lines at Damulaan.
 Japanese planes continued their generally ineffective" harassing raids on American shipping and shore installations at Leyte, Mac Arthur said. Thirteen of the enemy raiders were shot down.
 MacArthur's planes set a 4,000-ton freighter afire northwest of Min danao with three direct hits, de- stroyed a float plane and started fires at Cebu, and dropped 36 tons of bombs on Alicante airf1eld on Negros.
 Elsewhere in the Pacific, Ameri- can planes sank small enemy ves- sell in the northern Palaus, bombed the Yay airstrip and raided targets in the Bonin Islands.
 GA German Transocean News Agency dispatch from Toyko iden- tified the targets in the Bonins as Two Jima and Chichi Jima. Pagan Island in the southern Marianas also was raided by 12 American planes yesetrday, Transocean said, and stronger forces bombed Davao and Zamboanga on Mindanao island in the southern Philippines today.l
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eastern drive, Berlin reported that Soviet troops had forged across the big anti-tank ditch around the cap ital and claimed that heavy street fighting was taking place in Pests zentimre, three miles southeast of Budapest.
 Tn clearing the east bank of the Danube south from the gates of Budapest, the Red Army seized the river town of Solt and Dunaegy- haza, four miles to the northwest, in a vicious battle that cost the Germans and Hungarians hundreds of dead. The Soviets also captured 1,20O enemy, raising their six day bag of prisoners to 7,70O,
 Capture of the two towns gave Malinovskys forces control of the approaches to the first highway crossing of the Danube, AZ miles south of Budapest.
 The only section of the Danube's east bank remaining in doubt was in the Somber area, no miles south of the capital, but Berlin and Yugoslav reports indicated the Ger mans also had. lost that bridge head.
 Bridgeheads
 Both the Germans and Marshal Tito have announced the estab- lishment of Soviet bridgeheads on the west bank at Apatin and Bat ina, south and north of Somber on the opposite side of the river in Yugoslavia.
 Tito reported that the units which forced the Danube at Those points had crossed the Hungarian frontier. The Yugoslav partisan leader also announced that his troops, together with Bulgarian forces, had captured the great communications center of Skoplje, in southeastern Yugoslavia.
 The Soviet drive around the east side of Budapest practically straighened the Russian line lead- ing northeast to the Miskolc area, except for a bulge around out hanked Jaszbereny, 31 Miles east of the capital.
 The big rail and highway hub was threatened with being cut of by the Red Army troops which were encircling the town from the east and west.
 Highway Cut
 One Russian forces cut the main highway to Budapest in capturing Szentmartonkata, nine miles south west of Jaszbereny, leaving the enemy garrison only one railway and one highway escape routes to the northwest.
 In strengthening the front west of Jaszbereny, the SovietS also seized Nagykata, 25 miles east of Budapest; URI, 16 miles east south- east of the capital, and Peteri, four miles farther west.
 In the northern sector of the Hungarian front, the Russians cleared another section of the Jaszbereny -FuZesabony railway, oc- cupying the village of Pusztacsasz, 49 miles east of Budapest.
 The Moscow communique also dis closed that tens of Thousands" of enemy troops had been killed or captured by the 4th Ukrainian army in the Carpathian mountains, where the Soviets cleared the eastern end of Czechoslovakia and joined with Malinovsky's forces on the Hun l garian frontier.
 Nearly 2,700 other Germans were killed or captured by Marshal Tito'S forces in a two-day battle for Skoplje. capture of which ef- fectively sealed the important rail line from Athens, Greece, to Bel grade.
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(Continued from Page D tion" in which scare report have led distributors to hoard their stocks and the general public to attempt to overbuy.
 "Inasmuch as there is no in- tention of rationing cigaretS, those who pursue hoarding methods are only hurting their own interests. With sane buying, there should be enough cigarets available" Bowles said.
 Bowles ruled out the possibility of rationing after conferring with War Food Administrator Marvin Jones. He said it would prove expensive even if a practical system could be devised and would impose serious burdens of controls on the public and the trade"
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tin Bormann, chief of the party chancellery.
 With Third Army, France, Nov. 15-(UP)-American troops have uncovered several concrete exam pies that Nazi Gestapo Chief Hein- rich Himmler is using terror tac- tics against the ordinary German soldier to prevent surrender or es- cape.
 One captured German army or der declared:
 "An true son of the Fatherland without hesitation must shoot down any of his comrades showing the slightest sign of weakening morale. If any Nazi trooper fails in duty or attempts to surrender, his com- rades must consider it their duty to slay him even before firing upon the enemy"
 A German prisoner, captured re- gently by the 26th division, dis closed that several comrades who attempted to flee with him were shot down before reaching Amer ican lines.
 Only yesterday, several prisoners, taken on the Fifth Division front seven miles south of Metz, almost struck one of their members who made a joking remark in English to an American soldier.
 Most German prisoners, however, appeared to scoff at Himmler, call ing his V-2 "boys of IS" and his VA "old men of 6O." They sttll regard Hitler as 8 God, though. and most refuse to talk about him. pxrv man wONrnc ANn cTANEpS
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Continued from Page D ing as they plunged out of muddy trenches and slithered into the icy canals. Those able to swim gasped their way to the banks. Others were dragged out in boats. But almost without exception they fought on.
 The first infantry reached the canal banks at AIS p. m. as the opening artillery barrage slackened. Then they piled in assault boats and crossed. Within IS minutes they were well on the other side of the canals spraying fire into the enemy trenches.
 The gray wastes suddenly became a splurge of color as cannon spat flame along IS miles arc.
 Dusk sought to cloak the dyke
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logne came out publicly against Germany continuing the war. The Gestapo struck swiftly, and hanged 31 persons yesterday alone" as a warning.
 The Swiss dispatches said the en- tire Rhineland was in state of dangerous tension, with its trans port system in complete chaos" and workers getting out of hand.
 The authoritative British Press association said official circles in London were convinced that control of Germany had slipped from Hit ler'S faltering hands into those of Himmler with the result that the Reich will fight to the Hast gasp, regardless of the cost.
 Officials who have sifted all re- liable evidence reaching Britain from Germany see little or nc chance of a revolution within the country and no prospect of an early surrender, such as occurred in 1918, to preserve the Reich from deStruc- tion, Frank King, the agency's dip lomatic correspondent, said.
 The diplomatic correspondent of the Times. frequently used as a sounding board for government opinion, also said there mo longer seems any doubt" that Himmler is acting leader of Germany.
 Hitler has been shut of from active work through illness," the Times said, land Himnler has ex- tended his great power and now there is none to challenge him."
 The Times said Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, Hitler's desig- mated successor, also may be ill.
 Bjorn Bpornson, Swedish radio commentator, echoed the opinion that Himmler was the new dictator of Germany.
 "Himmler appoints new generals to the home army and Himmler now controls the National Labor Service, supplanting Konstantin Hierl, a Hitler appointee," he said.
 The whereabouts and health of Hitler still were a major mystery, but the Times said private, trust worthy" information was that he was suffering from nervous ex- haustion." Earlier reports also sug- gested that there had been prog resSive deterioration in his condi- ton of paranoia," the Times added.
 A London Daily Express dispatch said the last time anyone had "seen" Hitler was the last week in Septem- Der, when newsreel was shown German frontline troops to prove that he survived the plot against his life last summer.
 Newsreel
 A print of the newSreel, turned over to the American 3rd Army, showed Hitler walking through a hospital ward, the dispatch said:-
 "He looks astonishingly old, tired and harassed," it said. 'His right arm was in sling. Those who have seen the film remarked on Hitler's extraordinary pallor and agree he appears an exhausted and broken man."
 King said Hitler was suffering seriously from delayed concussior induced by the abortive bombing attempt on his life at h.s head quarters last July. A London news chronicle dispatch said Hitler's vocal
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Meanwhile" the telegraph ac- count said, it has become clear that Himmler had another and more important reason for letting the at- tempt take place; under the shock of danger, extracted unlimited powers from the scared Hitler.
 Perhaps it was the after eff fleets of the explosion which caused Hitler's final collapse.''
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Invasion Of Luzon Nears

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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-28
Evans. Jeltz Will
Conduct Revival
At St. Andrew

Evangelist l.. Fl. Holmes Jeltz,
Of Memphis, Tennessee. is sched-
ued to conduct revival services at
the St Andrews AME Church,
@3rd and State, beginning Sun
day August 6.
Eyang. Jeltz Is recent bride of
DR. N. II, Jeltz, director of Evan
gelism and Race Relations for the
African Methodist Episcopal
church, covering the states of
Mississippi and Louisiana. She is
members of the Evangelistic
Board Of the AME church. Be
SIDES being a gospel preacher,
she also possesses unusual must
cal ability, Her sermons and
songs have been heard by thous-
ands of people throughout the
states
Rev r. r. Williams will be host
during the special preaching mis-
sion, which is expected to attract
large crowds here.
Arkansas State press., 1944-07-28

for Houston. Texas, where she
will leave for Oakland, Califor-
mia. a. Mr.. and Mrs. Jess Orange
Of Bradley were guests of their
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Steve Orange Mrs. Jen-
ME Pitts and daughter, Mrs. Jes-
sic Mae johnson left for Kansas
City Mrs. Rosie Stewart Of
Stamps is visiting her cousins
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubart Strickland.
Mrs. Mary Turtine of Lewisville
is guest of her sister and brother
inlaw, Mr.. and Mrs. c. ]. Chef
fen Mrs. Mary Holmes of
Shreveport, La, has returned
after visiting her daughter and
son-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Willie
Hynes Miss Johnnie L. Coop
er of Houston, Texas is visiting
friends here James Foster
of the U. S. Navy, Great Lakes,
Ill.,, has returned after visiting
friends here Larner Ford of
the U. S. Navy, also Of Great
Lakes visited friends here and
also his mother, Mrs. Anna Hays
and aunt, Mrs. Carrie Williams -. :.