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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-08-05
FRANKLIN GETS WORSE

NEW ARK, \ J Lem franklin.
Chicago heavyweight who Vas crl-
ucally injured when he was
knocked out by Larry Lane Of
Trenton. y J hcsvywei 2ht last
week. contracted pneumonia last
Friday and was placed in an oNy-
cen tent IN a very critical cond-
ton" according 70 his physicians al
tho hnSpltsl
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French Launch Attack
On High Vosges Peaks

WITH THE SIXTH ARMY
GROUP, Nov. 3.-{P-The French
First army launched an attack IN
the 3,0o0-feet high Vosges peaks
west Of the German-held commu-
nications center Of Gerardmer to-
day.
Supported by heavy artillery
the French drove forward at the
outset against stiff resistance ana
later beat off Nazi counterattacK.
The last reported position OF the
French was eight miles west OF
Gerardmer. Five hundred Ger.
man prisoners were taken ano
several hundred Of the enemy were
killed during the heavy fighting
A sudden local enemy withoraw'
al In the maritime Alps far to he
south enabled allied troops to oe'
cupy the junction town OF sospei
eight miles north Of Mentone' ai'o
several nearby villages.
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Ex LANES M. LONG

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Paris, Nov. s. Up The
hastily dug field defenses and natu-
raj obstacles ahead of the preached
concrete and steel of the Siegfried
line above Aachen are likely to
prove tougher than the crust, in
the opinion of officers planning the
next move.
Some of the men who preached
the defenses of concrete and steel
in the two weeks from Oct. 2 to 16
told today how it was done with
the normal assault tactics of the
American tank and doughboy team.
There were no new devices, no
secret weapons, used in drilling the
hole IL miles wide and four miles
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RooseveIt Heads For Bos ton, Depey
For New York, To Close Campaign

Del, Camden, N. j., and Phila-
delphia. He accused the new deal
Of downright political corruption"
in its collection of campaign
funds. A republican vote on Tues
day, he said, would be "a mandate
that America be restored as a
government of law-unregimented
by bureaucrats - unexpected by
vocal reformers-and unmolested
by the peddlers Of alien dogmas. !"
The White House found itself in
an exchange with Powell Glass
over how 86-year-old Senator Car
ter Glass, Virginia democrat, feels
about a fourth term. Powell Glass,
the senator's son, said in a state
ment at Lynchburg, Va, Thurs
Continued ON Page Two; Col. ~
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CANDIDATES URGE
BIG STATE VOTE
BY The Associated Press

North Cardinals two political
parties last night issued final ap-
peals for full vote in the general
election next Thursday, while
spokesman and candidates for both
national and state tickets contin-
ued the final week Of campaigning
with addresses at key points
throughout the state.
Speaking from Democratic head
quarters at Raleigh, William B.
Umstead, state chairman, urged
full participation in the right Of
suffrage by all registered North
Carolinians." He predicted an ov-
erwhelming Democratic victory,
but warned such would be possible
only by full vote Of all the peo-
ple."
Sim Delapp, Republican state
chairman, said in Lexington that
he was confident of COP victory
IN the nation" adding that new
faces also will be seen around Ra.
leigh legislative halls in January"
Ne too urged all registered voters
70 participate in the general cleo
ton.
Meanwhile, campaigns OF botf
parties neared a climax with ma
'of addresses by both candidate:
continued on Page Three; Col. 81
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ALLIED B0MBERS
HIT BERLIN AGAIN

LONDON, Saturday, Nov. Ar
"A small formation of fast Allied
bombers - possibly mosquitoes -
were reported over Berlin early to-
day by the German radio as the
aerial assault against til e Reic
continued despite bad weather.
British heavy bombers number
ing more than 1000 dropped 1000
tons Of explosives on Dusseldorf,
Ruhr armaments city, Thursday
night in tae wake Of the smashing
American raid On Merseburg in
central Germany yesterday when
208 German planes were destroy
ed.
= The British Halifaxes and Lam
casters Friday left very large
fires" burning at Dusseldorf, ar
air ministry communique said
Many enemy fighters were en-.
countered and nine of the inter.
ceptors were destroyed.
The Raj onslaught on the Ruin
capital was the third successive
heavy attack over Germany BY
moonlight. Strongest opposition ov'
f1.., - , -
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S00NC INSISTS
ALL IS LOVELY

CHUNGK1NG, Nov. 3. - R) -
T.Iv. soong, Chinese foreign min
lister, declared today that China
and the United States has reach
ed complete agreement" on clos
er military, political and economic
cooperation and denied reports
that the; U. S. had .exerted pres
sure on China to settle her COM
munist problem.
In the first detailed statement
from a Chinese government Off
cial since the recall of Gen. 10
seph W. Stilwell as commander in
chief of American forces in the
China -Burma-1ndia theater, Soong
said the recall was entirely a
question Of personality"-that Still
well and Generalissimo Chang Kai,
shek simply did not like each other
and could not work together.
1.-The recall of Gen. Stilwell was
entirely a question of personality
and has nothing to do with any
difference OF policy between China
and the United States" the for
eign minister said in a writer
| fHnrtiuued mn Pare Three: Col. s.
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CALLS
STRIKES. TREASON

DETROIT, Nov. s. R Strikes
by mechanics closing "a Detroit
war plants today brought from I'm
dersecretary of War. Robert P.
Patterson a statement that they
were striking our fighting m n
from the rear" and that "such con-
duct is equivalent to treason -
Patterson's demand that tn e
strikes be halted at once was made
in a telegram to Matthew Smith,
national secretary of the Mechanics
Educational Society of America, an
independent union. =
MESA leaders said the union $
entire membership of nearly 10000
in this area walked off their jobs
at 10 am. in sympathy with the
unions iurisdictional dispute with
the United Automobile Workers,
(CIo) in the Toledo plant OF the
Electric Auto Lite Co. However,
some Spokesman of companies in
volved and officials Of government
agencies placed the total idle at
1900 to 1900. !.
Patterson wired Smith after a
conference with War Labor Board
Chairman William H. Davis, and
attaches of the Justice department.
Budget Bureau and Office of Eco
nonnic Sterilization Director Fred
M. Vinson. It was indicated t h e
plants might be placed under Army
or Navy control if the strikes con-
tinued. N,
"Your strikes are stopping the
flow of ammunition, guns, trucks
and tanks that are vitality needed
at. the 'front.'" Patterson's telegram
said. "Your strikes have nothing to
do with. wages, hours of work or
working conditions and represent
no honest grievance. Such conduct
is equivalent to treason when it
paralyzes plants making munitions
that must be speeded to- General
Eisenhower and General Mac7Ar-
thur"
The Toledo dispute conferred in
discharge by Electric Auto-Lite Of
six employees. Company officials
said the disrnissals were required
under maintenance Of member
ship. clause in the contract with the
JAW CLIO.
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LIST. Army Sweeps 2 Miles Nearer Cologne;
Flushing aken, Commander Surrenders;
Japane<n and Reinforcements On Leyte
NINTH AIR FORCE
KNOCKS OUT TANKS
Seventh Army Slashes
Ahead In South, TAX j
ing Towns u

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPED1-
TIONARY FORCE, Paris,
Nov. 3.-P)-The southern
flank of the U. S. First army
assault swept two miles south
east of captured Vossenack
today, overrunning the Ger
man village of Schmidt only
three-quarters of a mile from
the river Roer, next enemy
barrier on the way to the
Rhine % miles to the east.
The doughboys gouged out their
advance in hard fighting through
heavily mined woodland under
leaden clouds so low that close air
support was virtually impossible.
But fighter bomber pilots of the
Ninth Air force, flashing out Of the
clouds, dealt what blows they
could, knocking out three tanks
and probably destroying three 9th.
ers of the German armored sup
ply.
Although the impact fell heavi-
est on the German home front
there, fighting as fierce was 60.
ing on in the last hours OF the bat
tie for Walcheren island, which
will open the docks of Antwerp to
a flood Of Allied shipping.
The tempo Of battle also rose
along the Mark river line, five
miles south of the Mas in west
ern Holland, and beyond Vaccarat
in France, where Allied armies
tare battling toward the passes
(which lead through the Vosges
mountains to the Rhine and Ger
many.
The swampy south Schelde peck.
ct was iquidated as the last Nazi
sniper nests were cleaned out late
in the afternoon, and for the first
time since the Canadian offensive
broke there % days ago that front
fell silent.
On nearly Walcheren is
: land to the north, the last Of the
port-blocking big guns of the Ger
= mans fell silent too-most or pos
! sibly all of them by now knocked
5 out or captured.
Vlssingen (Flushing) was cap
$ tured. Its garrison commander, 1t.
Col. 'Reinhardt, and good many
of his men surrendered. The rest
fled to the east into triangle
menaced by a British-Canadian
bridgehead- broadening on the east
. shores of the island around the
causeway from south Beveland is
land.
Just south Of. the causeway, 9TH
er troops Of the Canadian First
army were ferried across the mile.
wide inlet and won a second foot
t Continued on Page Three; Col. y
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Child Burns
70 Death In
Fiery Home
lust OVER CITY LINE
fir. Department Doe: Not
Answer Call, Lacking
500 Guarantee

1acoueline Moore, two-year-
nd daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
J ysck 1. Moore was burned to
S Jasf in a blaze that COM
n nletely destroyed the five y.
rooro frame dwelling OF Mr..
and Mrs. Wade Pierce, where
the tt,s Moore's had been living,
t t,r blocks from the city linn
IT,; it's on the Carolina Beach
road. i,
The fire started shortly before 2
o'clock in the kitchen, apparently
from an overheated 'water heater.
III The Moore child was in the bed
ro nm adjoining the kitchen. and
Wade H. Pierce, Harold Fox and
pierce's eight-year-old daughter
sbjrlev. were in the front room.
Fox said they heard the baby
scream and he and Pierce tried
IN force the kitchen door but the
flames beat them back. Pierce was
burned about the hands and head
in his attempt to enter the burn
inc room. Fox told how the two
men with the aid OF other persons
tried to get into the room through
the windows but all efforts to
reach the child in the bedroom
were futile.
Mike Patellis, proprietor Of the
Famous Grill, about one hundred
Yards south Of the Pierce home,
said he called the Wilmington Fire
department, which has station
about six blocks from the scene of
the fire, and was informed that the
city required a guarantee Of 500
to attend a fire beyond the city
limits. Patelhs said he volunteered
to stand good for the money, but
the fire department failed to ap-
pear on the scene.
Joyce Fowler, young employee OF
skating rink, directly across the
highway from the Pierce house
said she phoned Wilmington fire
headquarters just before 7 o'clock
to report the fire. She said she
was told by the telephone operator
that they could not send out a
truck unless someone guaranteed
500. Miss Fowler said she called
Continued on Page Three; Col. r.
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full turnout Of the voters next
Tuesday.
Gov. Dewey spent most OF yes
terday at Albany, N. Y, working
on his Madison Square Garden
speech. Aides would not drop any
hints as to what subject he has
picked.
Gov. John W. Bricker and Sen
ator Harry S. Truman, the vice
presidential nominees. also wind up
their campaigns tonight, each in
his home state. Bricker has four
speeches scheduled in Ohio while
Truman will speak in his home
town, independence, Mo.
Bricker, who already has cop
ped the title Of making the most
speeches II ~ campaign, got Oft
three yesterday-at Wilmington,
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JAPANESEBOMBERS
DAMAGE U. S. SHIPS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. -P)-
Enemy bombers, attacking Ameri-
can carrier task forces and bases
in the Marianas, damaged sever
al'' United States war ships and
caused minor damage to airfields
of Saipan and Tinian, the Navy
announced tonight.
Thirteen of the japanese planes
carrying out the two assaults were
shot down, the Navy reported. Big
twin-engined bombers attacked the
airfields while dive bombers and
fighters carried out the assaults
on units of the third fleet.
Another enemy sea plane was
destroyed in an attack on Ameri'
can-held Pe1eliu island in the Pa.
lau group.
In addition to, ''minor damage
to, Isley airfield on saipan and
the northern airfield on Tinian,
the Navy. said the 'raiding planes
killed four men there and wound
ed another seriously.
No, indication was given Of the
extent of damage caused by the
enemy dive bombers and fighters
attacking part Of the Third fleet
Wednesday. PERSONAL casualties
aboard the damaged ships were
reported light.
The big bombers which attacked
American, land bases, the Navy
said, presumably flew south about
$50 miles from the BONN islands
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Ydnk 'Bombers Derail
Enemy Troop Train On
Luzon, Hit Other Isles

GENIAL MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Philippines,
Saturday, Nov. 4.-P)- Am
erican planes bombed and de-
rallied = japanese troop train
IN Luzon, main Philippine Is
land, among widespread at-
tacks on Philippine and south
west Pacific targets, Gen.
Douglas Macarthur announced
In = supplementary communi-
que today.
Five japanese planes were
destroyed aground on Cebu is
land, when hit by medium bonn
bers ON patrol. Cebu is be-
heved to be the staging base
for Nipponese reinforcements
sent to Leyte.
Heavy units dropped 26 tons
Of bombs on Alicante airdrome,
Negroes island, hitting supply
and personnel areas. Five Of
an unspecified number Of Jap
anese interceptors were shot
down, and four American
bombers were lost.
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Aew Hanover County
Is Second In State To
Pass War Fund Quota

New Hanover county was the
second Of the los organiza-
ions in the United War Fund
" North Carolina to 60 cover
me top" the local Community
war Chest office was advised
oday by Maj. L. p. McLendon.
sate chairman.
j, 1wenty-three United War
suna organizations have sue
.essfully completed their cam
palsns' for a total of more than
: million dollars, Major Nc.
.sas, said. In every case,
sSo'as have been exceeded by
substantial margins. The first
county to report a successful
campaign was Polk.
N addition. 50 counties have
, .. progress in their
.thaisns, accounting for an
.s,,, nalf million dollars.
h.r We have every reason. to
th ,"sve'' said Mr.. McLendon.
~. ' country chairmen through
S.@e state are determined
l.ss a. satisfied with nothing
'nan complete victory."
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Mitscher; Home OnLeaue,
Says Japs 5th. Rate No1U

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Nov. 3.-lR-
Japan's homeland has been left
pretty. wide open by reduction of
the enemy to a fifth rate naval
power and practical elimination OF
japanese naval aviation. Vice.
Adm. Marc A. M1tscher. task force
So commander, said today on his
return home on leave.
Despite the great successes on
land and sea and in the air, the
veteran officer said the Pacific war
soon probably would shift from high
to low gear because q the supply
problem.
The admiral generally was cred
tied with increasing the tempo Of
the japanese war with his pioneer
carrier blows at Truk and Saipan,
which gave the initial test Of car
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FERGUS CONDITION
REPORTED SERIOUS

Funeral arrangements for Mrs.
Grace Bonham Fergus, Sc who was
instantly killed late Thursday in
a head-on automobile collision at
Ocean Drive. S. c., were complet-
ed yesterday while Mr.. Fergus,
former mayor of Carolina Beach.
remains in serious condition at
the Dosher Memorial hospital In
Southport.
DR.. S. E. Koonce OF Wilmington,
who attended Mr.. Fergus last
night, said his condition was I'm
changed, but that he was resting
comfortably"
The 59-year-old victim Of an au-
to accident is repeatedly suffering
from a fractured skull. He was
taken Thursday night. to the South
port hospital from the Army Air
base hospital at Myrtle Beach by
DR.. L. c. Fergus, his son, Of the
Dosher hospital staff.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fergus had gone
to Ocean Drive in connection with
Mr.. Fergus seafood interests.
Mrs. Fergus repeatedly wa 3
thrown through the windshield of
the automobile as the result Of the
impact with the other vehicle.
Mrs. AIRY Mortensen Of Cherry
Grove Beach, whose husband IS an
overseas soldier, was the driver Of
the other car. She received minor
injuries. Two children in the car
with Mrs. Mortensen escaped in
jury.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Fer
gus is survived by four sons, Rob-
ert L., I. Eldridge, D. J.. and DR..
L. c. Fergus. Of Southport; two
sisters. Mrs. Kate Bryant and Mrs.
julie Piner, both Of Wilmington;
three grandaughters, Carol Ann
and Mary M. Fergus; and three
grandsons, L. c.. Jr., D. j., Jr., and
Ivan L., Fergus, Jr.
Funeral services will be held at
3 pm. Saturday at Fifth Avenue
Methodist church, with the Rev.
John Klein. Of Durham, and the
Rev. C. D. Barclift officiating.
Burial will follow in Oakdale
cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Henry
Sneeden, John Fergus, and the
Fergus sons.
The body will remain at Yopp
funeral home until the hour Of the
funeral service.
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BY w. w. HERCHER

LONDON, Saturday, Nov. 4.-R
"A powerful Russian army con-
verging on Budapest crushed Axis
positions only seven miles outside
the Hungarian capital yesterday,
hurting reinforced German d
Hungarian defenders into hastily
dug trenches on the edge of the
prize city
Berlin termed the situation "crit-
ical.''
A Moscow communique announc-
ed the capture of 100 localities on
an assault arc between the Danube
and Tisza rivers, including Alsone-
medi, seven miles southeast of the
city on a highway leading to its
heart. !
Amid unverified reports that civil
warfare and widespread looting
had broken out inside the Queen
city on the Danube, the Russians
battled their way to within sight
of it's spires, and to within easy
artillery range of Axis troops grid
ing for a final stand.
A midnight Soviet supplement
said the Germans and Hungarians,
in a desperate effort to halt the
Russians, had hurled all available
reserves into the battle security
units, rear garrisons, and various
other groups. q
They are taking away from var
ious other sectors Of, the front ar.
tillery and tanks and hurriedly
transferring them to the Budapest
area" the supplement said.
Besides capturing Alsonemedi ir
10 : mile advance along the high.
way from Kecskemet, the Russians
also seized Szalkszentmarton anc
Dunavecse, on the Danube 81 ane
IS miles south of Budapest. These
fCoutinued on Page Three: Col, Il
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20 Million May Need
=, Rehabilitation Later

CHICAGO, Nov. 3.-;;R The
number of men in the world who
will need rehabilitation as re-
suit of the war may reach TO-
900, ooo," Brig. Gen. Frank +:
Hines. veterans administrator told
tine National Rehabilitation asso-
citation today.
To cure these men, Gen. Hines
said. and to avoid a shocking
waste Of human resources the in
dividual must be fitted to his
proper environment as well as
restored to health"
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Obstacles Ahead Held
Worse Than West Wall

deep in the concrete zone" Five
hundred pillboxes were knocked out
and 5000 Germans were captured
in them.
Those pillboxes, in the view of
the men who broke them, were
little better than deathtraps.
But here is what lies ahead, &C
cording to 1t. Col. Thomas Crystal
80, of 545 West 51st St., Miami
Beach, Fla, of the 10th Corps
which made the breakthrough:
1.-THE rest of the way.to the Rhine
is open, cultivated, gently rolling
farmland of beet and turnip fields
everyone in this part of Germany
must live on beets and turnips. 1t
is cut by two more main valleys
Continued on Page Three; Col. A.
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rier power against enemy strong
holds of the mysterious and I'M
known toughness.
Since then, the fighting h s
moved to the Philippines and Nit
scher said that as American forces
moved west lines Of communication
encounter increasing difficulty.
Americans have no idea OF the
amount of effort it takes to get
food and ammunition and other
supplies out to the islands in the
Pacific" said the admiral. 1T
means lot more shipping than
we have available now"
Mitscher said that although the
war in the Pacific may slow down,
it will not stop.
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
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ENEMY ATTEMPTS
BREAK FROM TRAP
American Planes Destroy
Two Transports And
Is Aircraft

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, PHILIP
PINES, Saturday, Nov. A.
P-Under slashing Ameri-
can aerial attack, the Japan
csc imperial army landed
strong mechanical reinforce
ments and began it's first po-
tentially formidable attempt
Friday to avert disaster on
Leyte island.
The japanese counterattck,
which began with an attempt to
break out Of the Ormoc trap, pre-
sages a flareup in the battle for
Leyte. But the overwhelming Amer
lean superiority in men and guns
leaves little doubt of the final is
sue.
Yank infantrymen moved five
miles westward along Carigara bay
and frightened their encirclement Of
Ormoc, Is miles to the south, as
the Japanese suddenly halted their
ostensible withdrawal from Leyte
and shot large new forces into the
battle.
The reinforcements landed at Or
moe Wednesday night and Thurs
day morning from four large trans
ports and escorting destroyers.
American Lightnings and bomb
carrying warhawks fought h e r
way through a strong Japanese
fighter screen and heavy flax to
attack the convoy in Ormoc bay.
The bitter battle cost the Japa-
nese two transports and Is Of the
estimated so first line planes
they threw into action.
The reinforcements landed in the
darkness, however, and immediate
iy were dispatched northward along
the winding highway leading north
to- Carigara Bay.
Lightnings, returning from t h e
Ormoc bay conflict, discovered the
Japanese column of trucks a n d
tanks, extending for several miles
through narrow Ormoc valley.
The Yank fighters attacked the
convoy, destroying 30 trucks and
two tanks.
The column was disrupted"
said today's communique, with
enemy troops sustaining heavy cas-
ualties'' and the loss Of much
equipment and supplies.
Richard Bergholz, Associated
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 81
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m The Associated Press

President Roosevelt heads To-Day
Saturday for familiar New Eng
land campaign trails and Governor
Dewey for. the scenes Of his early
fame with bids for unoec'oeo
Ton Tonight they will cut loose W.T.. win
+he final biz speeches Of their
c ear president in Bos-
t ta,'p and the governor in New
v W. Madison Square garden;
1s W. addresses viii officially END
the campaign, but each candidate re
plans an election eve message ~
- One of the last things Presioen'
Roosevelt did before Leaving . WASH -,
|inston was 10 issue IN appear i0'
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REDS SAY BALTIC
CLEAR OF NAILS

LONDON, Nov. 3.-lR-The Mos
COW radio said tonight the Ger
mans had been cleared from all
the Baltic states Except for a
patch around Liepaja, Latvian port,
which is being mopped up" Ger
mans who escaped to the p
'have a futile hope" Of escape, the
account added.