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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-25
REDS MAKE GAINS
IN EAST PRUSSIA
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(C0utlUucQ IIOU1 Z 06O O~'
the newly-organized Nazi home
guard, but Moscow dispatches SAID
these poorly.armed m k e S h II
forces failed to meet the initial test
many being readily killed or cap
tured in the first great break
through. One report said many hid
IN the woods until the Russians
passed, then returned home.
Regular German armor, recover
ing from the initial shock, W 5
counterattacking west OF the East
Prussian town of Goldap. held by
the Russians, and was massed on
the eastern and southeastern ap-
breaches to Gurnbinnen, which bar
the direct route to Insterburg and
Konigsberg.
Yet the Russians pushed on, the
communique listing centers captur-
ed as including Szirguponen, u X
miles southeast of Gumbinnen, and
Trakehnen, nine miles east and
slightly south OF Gumbinnen.
Overnight Soviet bombers hit
Gumbinnen, 1nsterburg and Anger
app, but Moscow still did not con-
firm a German statement Of Mon
day that the Red army had reached
the Angerapp river, II miles west
Of fallen Goldap and IS miles IN
side East Prussia.
The German high command ac-
knowledged that the great battle
tor East Prussia continued with
the utmost violence" but contend
ed new Soviet attacks were ward
ed off or checked"
The Germans were using their
cities as fortresses in the Aachen
manner, and the Russian answer
was the same as that Of the Ameri-
cans.
Overshadowed by the conflict in
East Prussia, other Russian armies
continued the speedy prosecution Of
their drive in southeast Europe.
The Moscow con1rnunique an.
nounced capture of the big Czecho'
slovak town and railway station Of
Huszt (Chust) and 10 other centers
in the Carpatho-U Ukraine district.
In the final sweep to clean up
Transylvsnia, the Russians broke
into Satu-Mare, the one remaining
important city held by the enemy.
In Hungary the Russians and Ro-
manians advanced northwest Of
Seged, capturing the railway juno
ton city of Kiskunhalas, 10 miles
south Of Budapest, and Janoshal.
ma, nearby.
The Berlin radio, broadcasting a
late report from the high command
said that in Hungary as well as
East Prussia the Russians still
were pouring in reinforcements.
Moscow was silent concerning
operations of the first Baltic army
which has surrounded Memel and
pushed within easy artillery range
of the East Prussian north border
city of Tilsit.
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Princess Beatrice, 81,
Reported Grauely Ill

LONDON, Oct. 24.-R-Eighty-
seven-year-old Princess Beatrice,
last surviving child of Queen Vic
toria, is seriously ill and her con.
dition is now causing grave ankle
ty,' said bulletin issued tonight
by the royal physician.
Her royal highness' health has
been gradually failing for some
time and has shown marked de-
terioration during the last week, "
the brief announcement said.
Princess Beatrice is great aunt
to the present King of England.
She was the youngest of nine chill.
dren born to Queen Victoria.
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BRITISH HIT BIG
NAZI DEFENSE KEY
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tackine British. Two other armor-
ed Britishs olumns, lunging in from
the east and the south were little
more than two miles from the COM
munications hub. There was con-
iecture whether the Nazis would
FIGHT for the Dutch city until it was
DESTROYED as they did for their
own town of Aachen.
The left wing of the British ad-
vance captured the long and bitter
w defended German bastion OF
Best six miles northwest OF Find
hoven, after an advance OF flve
miles.
Canadian forces, battling to clear
the Schelde estuary approaches to
Antwerp, drove across cause
way onto south Beveland island.
which sprawls along the northern
side of the estuary. and pushed
nearly mile and half inside the
island to within a few hundred
yards of the town of Marie.
The bold punch onto the island
was made in darkness at 4:30 a.
M, with infantry, tanks and
armored cars leading the way.
With daylight the attackers were
given air support and advanced
steadily in severe fighting
Two other Nazi strongholds nort.:l
of Antwerp and east and north OIL
the causeway = Bergen OPP Zoon
and Rcsendaal - were threatened
by the Canadian push beyond the
island.
The ferry port of Breskens
across from Vlissingen (Fflushing)
on largely flooded Walcherer
island at the entrance to the es
tuary, was held firmly by thu
Canadians, though hard fighting
was in progress for Fort Frederik
Hendrix. just west of the town
A field dispatch said Allied bomb
ing had knocked out all but one
of their Germans long-range gun!
at Vlissingen, which have effec
lively blocked the sea entrance
to the Schelde. 'Ft
A mistaken report last night thai
the Canadians had withdrawn from
Breskens was believed to hav.
been caused by confusion over thu
withdrawal of a small Canadian
patrol from Fort Frederik-He
For another day there was n,
Allied report of action on the FRS
Army front inside Germany. but
German military commentator re
ported that an American attacl
southeast of Geilenkirchen,
miles north Of Aachen, had bee
repulsed. He said the American
were trying to gain good attack
ing positions for a general offer
!, sive.
the first SHOWS of-Winter adde
, to the weather difficulties OF amer
!, lean and French troops in north
eastern France. The German radi
. reported American artillery wa
laying heavy barrage on the TO-
tress city of Metz. Street fightin
continued in Maizieres Les Met;
short distance north of Metz, wit
(: doughboys holding about thre.
fourths of the town.
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HOMELESS DUTCH
SMILE ON BRITISH

BEFORE IS HERTOGENBOSCH,
Holland, Oct. d. Up Dutch
civilians line the roads as the tri-
umphant British Tommies push on
toward S Hertogenbosch and with
joyful smiles offer their pitifully
small treasure of food-apples and
milk.
Behind them their formerly
spick and span homes lie in ruins,
Quilted or blown into nothingness
by British artillery. But the de-
struction of their homes seems to
matter little to these amazing
people. ut is worth it to be free
of the Germans" says one elderly
woman.
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MRS. MARY BREAZEALE

Mrs. Mary Breazeale, of Viii.
mington, died early yesterday
morning at the home of her hus-
bands parents in Greenville, S.
C.
She was the wife Of w. H. Brea.
zeale, of this city, who is con.
nected with the Queen City Coach
company.
In addition to her husband she
is survived by one daughter, Nor.
ma Gwyn Breazeale, age 4.
Funeral arrangements are in
complete.
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MARTIAL LAW ENDS

WASHINGTON. Oct. "a In
With the lifting of marital law in
Hawaii today by presidential pro-
clamation, civil government ruled
in that territory for the first time
since the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor.
The proclamation also restored
the right Of habeas corpus in
Hawaii, continued suspension OF
which had created a controversy
between military and civilian Of
ficials.
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BOLOGNA FLANK
ATTACK GAINING
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way and seven miles southeast Of
Castel San Pietro. The American
advance in this area swept up Fon-
tanelice, seven miles southwest Of
Imola.
On the Eighth army front in the
Adriatic sector Monte Cavallo,
west of the Savio river and south
of Cessna. was captured by Indian
troops. Along the Adriatic coast
other Eighth army forces advanc-
ed a half mile beyond Cervia and
Canadian forces enlarged their
bridgehead across the Savio north
Of Cessna.
Strong German tank attacks
hurled at the Canadians were beat
en- off with the Nazis suffering
heavy casualties.
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COMPOSER DEAD

PARIS, Oct. 24.-REComposer-
Conductor Gabriel Groveler, IS,
a native Of Lille, died here today.
Groveler at one time conducted
orchestras at the Chicago Opera
and in Boston, said the Agence
Franchise Presse.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-25
CHIJRCH CONFERENCE
HOME ON LEAVE

HOME ON LEAVE
I. B. Blake, L. G. Cook, j. r.
Edwards, d. L. Pridgen, w.
C. Aud and Romeo William
son are home from Camp
Peary, Va, on a ten-day fur
Tough.
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JOHN P. NALL

John P. Nall, retired Atlantic
Coast Line railroad employe, died
at his home in Audubon, Sunday
afternoon at $50 o'clock.
He was born in Grantsville, Ca,
on May 20, 1884, the son of j. B.
and Betty Culpepper Nall.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Alberta Blanchard Nall; one
daughter, Mrs. Fred Mote, one
granddaughter, Martha Ann Mote,
all of this city; two brothers, c. E
and Edward Nall, both Of Grants
vile, Ca; four sisters, Mrs. z. T
Elliot. of GAINESVILLE, Ga, ane
Mrs. Edward Lester, Mrs. Ruth
Todd, both of Grantsville, Ga, ane
Mrs. r. L. Downs, of Fayetteville
North Carolina.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday afternoon at 4:3O from
Temple Baptist church with thu
Rev. J. Roy Clifford, Of Lexington
and Rev. T. H. King officiating
Interment followed in Oakdal'
cemetery.
Honorary paIbearers wer e
Paul Gray, M. o. Venters, B
Evans, L. Clifton. R. H. Vann, E
B. Lewis, Albert Keels, Claud
King, r. L. Foy, r. L. Bostian, c
Harmon Stanton, DR.. w. C. Me-
bane, R. L. Atkins, A. H. Williams
r. J. Sneeden, and ]. H. Greece
Active pallbearers were E. 3
Johnson, J. L. Davis, T. M. Dun
ham. H. L. Smith, ]. R. Stillman
C. w. Ruark.
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MRS. EFFIE w. PHELPS

Mrs. Effie Phelps, Sc, OF Supply.
died at the Dosher Memorial hospi-
tai at Southport, yesterday at 4
pm. after a long illness.
She is survived by six daughters,
Mrs. Lottie M. Long, Little River,
S. c., Mrs. Grace Coleman, b.
l,via; Mrs. Lucille Higgins, of Day
tona Beach. Fla: Mrs. VERNE
Grice. Hamlet; Miss Mary Phelps
and Miss Emma Phelps, both Of
Supply.
She is also survived by one son,
Mcneil Phelps, of the U. S. Ma
rines, stationed somewhere in the
South Pacific.
Funeral services will be conduc-
ted tomorrow at 4 pm. at the
Coleman cemetery at Supply. The
Rev. Tom johnson will officiate.
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City Brief
". F. w. MEETING

The James A. Manley post
2S73. v. F. w., will hold its
regular meeting tonight at 8
o'clock At the U.S.O. at Second
and Orange streets. Members
are urged to attend As plans
will be made for the annual
v. F. w. Poppy day. which
will be held on November IL.
CHURCH CONFERENCE
The fourth quarterly confer
ence Of Grace Methodist church
will be held tonight at 1880
o'clock In the Lydia Yates
room at the church, 1t was an
nourced last night by the Rev.
J. F.. Herbert, pastor. All off,
GERS of the church are re-
quested to attend.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-06
.UMSTEAD APPEALS
FOR LARGE VOTE

RALEIGH, Nov. 5.-LP)-Wil-
liam B. Umstead, chairman of the
state Democratic executive COM
mittee, in a prepared statement is
sued here today, urged 'fuu parti-
cipation in the right of suffrage by
all registered North Carolinians."
The statement follows, in part:
"As election day approaches, we
are confident of a large majority
for the entire Democratic ticket"
1.-The only obstacle to such an
outcome will be the failure of citi-
zens to 60 to the polls on Novem-
Der and vote I therefore urge
the voters of the state to exercise
the sovereign right of suffrage on
Tuesday. This election is of vital
importance to every voter in North
Carolina and its result will not
only vitality affect this state and
nation, but also is of supreme i'm
portance to the entire world.
'We feel that good government
in North Carolina, as early conclu-
sion of the war and the hope of es-
tablishing lasting peace depend
upon a Democratic victory on No
Vember T."
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second candidate, Dewey, have
been melting before ones eyes,"
Izvestia said republican hopes
were dashed when preliminary
data indicated the number of
voters this year would be at least
equal the 5O,OOO,00O in 1910.
cat the beginning of the cam
paign the republicans believed
100000 would be cast the
paper reported.
Because of the unfavorable
course of the election campaign
the split increased in the repub-
hcan party" it added, citing the
pro-Roosevelt stand of Senator
Joseph H. Ball (R-Minn.)
Izvestia said '"The New York
Times and New York Herald
Tribune also. are against Dewey"
((The New York Times has sup
ported President Roosevelt edi-
torially, but the New York Herald
Tribune has supported the candi-
dacy of Governor DeWeyD
Dewey attempted to divide
himself from defeatist, isolation
list conceptions and the most COM
promised pro-fascist elements such
as Hamilton Fish and Gerald K.
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Soviet Government Ne1us paper Ayers
Election OF Roosevelt Guaranteed

MOSCOW, Nov. 5.-(R-Izestait.
Soviet government newspaper, in
an article headlined, THE Elec-
ton of President Roosevelt is
Guaranteed said today there was
a rumor that Republican interests
were plotting a fake assassination
attempt against Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey to sway American voters.
Zone should not forget that his
tory includes a number of such
insolent, crude provocations, be-
ginning with faxed document
ascribed to communists, which
appear on the eve of parliament
tary elections in some democratic
countries up to the burning of
the Reichstag in Germany" said
Izvestia.
In an unsigned article of two
columns long at the top of its
third page, the paper declared
Never before in the history of
the United States have observers
on the eve of presidential cleo
ton been so sure of the results
as they are now because so clear
is the composition of forces sup
porting each of the two candi-
dates. Xxx X The chances of the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-06
JAPANESE FORCES
MENACE LIUCH0W

CHUNGKING, Nov. 5.-CP-
Japanese pressing their south Chi
ma offensive converged on the
Kwangsi province railway city OF
Liuchow from three directions to-
day with the nearest column only
As miles away on the southeast.
The hard pressed Chinese still
held the Japanese back at Kweilin,
95 miles to the northeast, where
the enemy had fought into the
eastern, western and northern SUI
burbs.
With the complete destruction OF
the big air base near Kweilin - a
Kweilin dispatch said the demoli-
ton charges which blew up the
runways we're set off Oct. 28.-
that city lost it's military import
ance. but Liuchow was a strategic
prize, since it controls all the main
railways in Kwangsi province.
The Chinese high command ad.
mitted that the Japanese stprmed
into Yungfu, 30 miles southwest OF
Kweilin, and sent a bypassing col
umn IL miles farther south along
the Hunan-Kv:angsi railway to
within SO mise northeast Of Lui-
chow.
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Smith," the paper said, "but still
the pro-fascist, pro-German ties
of those who formed the core OF
the republican staff who financed
Dewey's election campaign are
well known"
1.-THE Hearst newspapers and the
publications Of Mccormick, Pat
terson and Gannett carried on
campaign for Dewey and sinAul-
taneously this campaign was con-
verted into a defeatest, even a
pro-Hitlerite agitation, 1zvestia
asserted. 1.-THE support of these
newspapers betrayed Dewey. OBJ
viously his shattered position in
duced Dewey to resort to the old
method of uttermost reactions
scare people with the communist
danger'.''
This hopeless attempt by the
republican party is made to cover
with scarecrow rags their own
political nakedness and lack of a
positive program to attract vot-
ers," the paper continued. "The
investment of millions of dollars
by republican headquarters will
not bring any political or economic
interest"
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No INQUEST SET
IN SANDS CASE

coroner Asa W. Allen reported
,;ob4 that the death OF Mr..
ID, Mrs, George D. Sands OF
sllu .et+ village, was obviously a
'sse Of murder and suicide coro-
''' Allen said that apparently
nSl was no motive other than
NJ fact that the couple accord
'l' . witnesses, were quarrellng
lns 5.s w Sands shot his wife three
nele.' in the head and killed him
pun, .;4b one shot in the temple
I ri+b a 81 calibre 5 revolver s.Iu h.
WIN No inquest, he added will De
teld. ,..1 services for the couple
f0i ;;econ7plete, but it was re-
pre- pred ll( by Yopp's funeral home
p0r'SG tbe body of Mrs. Sands was
that .nG to Charlottesville, Va.
shippt iabt, accompanied by one OF
las1 i so1s, william B. Sands, VINO
he' :, sq tbe Army and stationed at
is III p s,.s The couple had an
tof' ~ ,on George Sands, Jr., a
other tIosso+ s0 at the University of Hi
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AMERICANS DESTROY
KWEILIN AIRFIELD
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Mass, should be the touch-off sig
nal.
Kenerson and Col. Richard H.
Wise, 40 Hodge Road, Princeton,
N. j., sector commander in the
air service command, were IN.
charge of the destruction although
neither was present for the final
fusing.
The last transport plane into
Yangstang carried Sapt. Gerald
James McAllister, wing public re-
lations officer whose sister is
Adelia McAllister Fransworth, 260l
Sixteenth Street Northwest, Wash
ington, D. c.; John W. Randolph,
1920 Eleventh Avenue South, Bir-
mingham, Ala, Owl correspond
ent; Tech. Sgt. Harold E. Geer,
4 1 Greenridge Ave, White Plains,
N. Y, combat cameraman; Sgt.
Selig Soidlir, 85-43 169th ST., ia
maica, N. Y, combat cameraman,
and myself.
The plane was loaded with radio
equipment from the communica-
tons cave while we joined one of
the demolition teams. Except for
the C-64 that carried McAllister,
Randolph and the two cameramen
away late in the afternoon, the
transport that brought our party,
was the last to leave Yangstang.
The crew consisted of 1t. Irwin
j. Hesley, 1912 Lincoln Ave, River
side, ILL.,, pilot; 1t. William F. Sic
gel, Is Hennessy Place, Irvington,
N. Y, co-pilot; Tech. Sgt. James
Totten, Olney, Ill, engineer; Cpl.
H. NJ Jasperson, 1904 North Bow
don ST., Portland, Ore, radio op-
orator.
Once the radio station was dis
mantled, the base was out of touch
with the outside world and the
most pressing concern of the ''bit-
ter-enders,'' as they called them
selves, was to destroy the place
without destroying themselves.
Since there was no chance of aer-
ial rescue with the. field blow,
they had to hit the road in jeeps.
/ Our jeep was en- route to Kweilin
when the field blew up, showering
the sky with explosives, debris and
dust and sending gusts of wind
bowling through the valley.
We were at the edge of Kweilin,
where we were to take the road
south, our six jeeps forming lit
tie convoy. Each jeep had three
men armed with rifles, carbines,
brenguns, tommyguns and pistols.
No one knew whether the road
south was still free of the enemy.
The bombs let 60 one after an
! other over a space Of ten minutes.
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Europeans And Natives
Riot In johannesburg

CAPETOWN, South Africa, Nov.
large police force was
called out today to deal with riots
between Europeans and natives in
johannesburg.
The trouble arose when native
was knocked down accidentally,
police said. Natives stoned passing
vehicles and the Europeans at
tackled the office of native news
Taper, they reported.
Police charged the rioters, using
tear gas. A number of both races
were hospitalized.
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Dale Carnegie And
Miss Vanderpool Wed

TULSA, Okla, Nov. 5. - Up, -
Dale Carnegie, the noted lecturer,
and Dorothy Price Vanderpool OF
Tulsa were married today on the
eighth anniversary of the publica-
ton of How to Win Friends and
Influence People," the book that
made him famous.
Even after l wrote that book, )"
cracked Carnegie, sit took me
eight years to influence woman
70 m q r,-,, r1oe''
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nois. The body of Sands is at
Yopp funeral home.
Mrs. Sands came to Wilmington
from Norfolk, Va, and Sands was
native of Newport News, Va.
Sands was a special investigator
of the police department of the
North Carolina Shipbuilding COM
pany.
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An unusual force that shakes
fighter planes out of pilots con-
troll during combat dives has been
shackled by two metal strips that
are hinged to the under side OF
the wing, controlling the flow OF
air across the wing.
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run ALAOOlvO VIII
FIGHTING HAVE THE BEST CHANCE OF CON-
ING HOME AND COMING HOME SOONER
quicker the victory the better the chance
n mH aa ad an ETer hour the ~ nis n
thousands homes To change leadership at
al s no saoRTEN There would
actual the conmndern Chief along
% ea ms mt" and nd' s ae6 E SSGT WAR
SECOND
BECAUSE PRESENT THAN ANY OTHER AMER
cANToDAY WISDOM THE EXPERIENCE AMP THE W0RID
WIDE MOVEMENT TO PREVENT WORLD WAR ILL.,
d Rsa S Hszse s1 s
President Wilson's plans wrecked by Republicans Con-
sf Me table e work out
Great Britain Russia and China Who would better qualified
saS n and who has an Knowledge politics.
tor with an the
states?
BECAUSE OUR PRESENT PROFOUNDLY BELIEVES THAT
EACH OF OUR FIGHTING OTHER MAN AND
AFTER THE WAR AND HE HAS pEMoN
sTRATED HAS THE HEART THE CAPACITY AND THE WLTo
SEE THAT EACH RETURNING sERVICEMAN GETS IT.
President the human
side Of a2t oo f right S S 6
help industry Ent do it alone After ALL was fen H % he @
see that of THIS apple
stands
BECAUSE NORTH CAROLINA UNDER DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION
ADVANCED AND PROSPERED
lively MORE THAN ANY OTHER STATE IN THE NATION
with % % b $ S T z% S Ss % % ' %
esOulbrt nedagano ton
% 1t!
to
Comm ~
Nathan S. Chairman
X camnheu
so BY this committee WFD Monday night November 6 at
E30P.M
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-02
DEATH REMOVES
 AGNES R|TCH|E
Beacon Falls Resident Sue: cumbs at New Haven
 General Hospital

Beacon Falls, Feb. 2-Miss Agnes ThomaSton Ritchie, 37 South Main street, died last night at the New Haven General Hospital. She was born Oct. ', 1896 in East Douglas, Mass, daughter of Mrs. Jane Thomson and the late Thomas w. Ritchie. She resided here a num- Der of years.
 Survivors are her mother of Beacon Falls; two brothers, Thomas Ritchie of East Douglas, Mass, and Andrew T. Ritchie of Auburn, Mass sister, Mrs. Jane E. McLaren with whom she resided.
 Funeral services will be held Fri day at 2:30 p. m. in the Aldersor Funeral Home, POI Meadow Street Naugatuck, with Rev. Harry E Thomas, pastor of United Church officiating. Burial, at the conven. fence of the family, will be in Pines. bridge cemetery. Beacon Falls Friends may call at the funera home tomorrow between 3 to anc to g p. m.