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Evening star., 1944-10-06
Roosevelt Repudiate!
Communist Support,
Calls for Big Vote
Attacks Robbie Rousers
And Fomenters of Gloss
Hatred in Address
BY ]. A. FOX.

President Roosevelt has hit
back at those who have sought
to link his administration with
communism.
In an address from the White
House last night attacking the "rab-
BILE rousers and fomenters of class
hatred" who use this line of attack,
Mr.. Roosevelt said:
Il have never sought, and I do
not welcome the support of any
person or group committed to COM
munisim, or fascism, or any other
foreign theology which would under
mine the American system of gov
ernment, or the American system of
free competitive enterprise and pri-
vate property"
The speech-second of an avowed
political" nature of the fourth-term
campaign-was addressed primarily
to approximately 125, 900 Democratic
get-out-the-vote rallies over the
country, and was carried over the
Columbia and Mutual Broadcasting
Systems.
Asks Large Turnout of Voters.
Declaring that the American peo-
pie must not be "slackerS" on elec-
ton day, the President said that
every qualified voter, regardless of
party, has the sacred obligation to
vote.
For the free and secret bal
lot is the real keystone of our Amer
ican constitutional SYSTEM" Mr..
Roosevelt added.
Speaking personally, should be
very sorry to be elected President
of the United States on a small
turnout of voters" he continued.
And by the same token, if de-
feated, should be much happier
to be defeated by large turnout
of voters. Then there could not be
any question of doubt in anybody's
mind as to which way the masses
of the American people wanted this
election to CO."
The President directed a particu-
lar appeal to the woman voters,
who potentially outnumber the
males this year, to exercise their
right of franchise, ind he also be-
spoke the early elimination of the
many undemocratic defects in vot-
ing laws in various States" restrict
ing the qualifications of voters, and,
he said, preventing "a full and free
expression of public opinion"
Nnro n n~fra;uad
The Presidents speech was some
what more restrained than that
which he delivered before the Team
sters' union two weeks ago, but it
bristled in several spots
He hit at 'some politicians and
a few newspapers for trying TO
build up bogies of dictatorship in
this Republic" asserting they care
more for material riches than
human rights.
He said also that it was source
of regret to all decent Americans that
some political propagandists are
dragging red Sherrings across the
trail of this national election"
For example, the President as
serted, labor baiters and bigots and
some politicians use the term COM
munism' loosely and apply it to every
progressive social measure and to the
views Of every foreign-born citizen
with whom they disagree"
In discussing the communism is
ICaa n00CEvTEr n r. a 1cI-
Evening star., 1944-10-06
Yanks Driven Back at Two Points
By Fierce Tank Counterattacks
As Nazis Battle to Close Breach
B ULL E 7 IN

Chief Justice Edward c. Eicher presiding at the sedon
trial. indicated today he would give serious consideration
Monday defense motions to declare mistra postpone
the until after the election President Roosevelt
Democratic workers night denounced
Shirts ohe the unac fringe" William
Dudley Peley, defendant, formerly headed the Silver
Shirts Echer told defense attorneys
present motions in writing and he would make them a
special order of business at pm Monday. The trial
tnued this afternoon. Story Page B-1.
Evening star., 1944-10-06
tSee BRAWL, Page A-50
200 WhoIes Litter Beech

ADELAIDE, Australia, Oct. 6 Up.
Two hundred whale carcasses,
ranging up to 16 feet IN length, lit
tered q smile stretch Of Primes
Beach, on the South Australian
coast, today as residents pondered
the problem of their disposal. The
mammals were left stranded by re-
ceding tides. Z
Evening star., 1944-10-06
Sunshine Forecast
For Late Today
1o:45 pm

People who braved the fog this
morning can look forward to sun
shine late today and tomorrow, the
torecaster said.
Temperatures are due to rise to
80 this afternoon. The temperature
at 9;30 am. was 65legrees.
Evening star., 1944-10-06
Himmler Units in Action

(, LONDON, Oct. 6 (P.-Several
"volksrenadiere divisions Hmm
ler's home guard units--have gone
into action on the western front, the
Frankfurt radio said today.
Evening star., 1944-10-06
MAP on Page A-3.)
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Oct. Sit. Gen
Courtney H. Hodges lst Army
soldiers, jumping off to the fifth
day of attack in their wedge ir
the Siegfried Line at Ubach, ran
into a storm of heavy armored
counterattacks today and were
forced to fall back at two places
The Germans, acknowledging
their Siegfried defenses had beer
preached, threw their first sizable
armored forces with hundreds OF
guns and infantry into their as
saults in fierce determination te
block the road to the Rhine. The
Americans had to fall back from
Beggendorf, mile east of Ubach
and to miles inside Germany.
Under the pressure the Americans
also were forced off the top of pill
box ridge mile and half south OF
Ubach and a mile east of Herbach
But they held on to the lower
slopes, and Allied airpower, given
clear skies for the first time since
the wedge battle started, flew at the
chance to deal devastating blows on
enemy armor.
Meet New Obstacles.
The Americans, who got off to the
attack early today from Ubach, ran
into new obstacles as they sought to
exploit their gains behind the Ger
mans main belt of steel and con-
crete.
The first, east of Ubach, was sys-
tenn of community diggings"-
freshly turned trenches dug by civil
ians. These proved formidable as
they had been constructed to permit
mobile guns to run into them. fire
and change positions before Allied
artillery could reply.
The second was southeast of
Ubach, along a 500-yard stretch,
where battle of the barracks
was taking place. Here in four-story
concrete structures the Germans
had concealed a veritable fortress
about which they had clustered
antitank gans, artillery and NOR
tars.
The Americans had advanced to
within rife range and Allied planes
were bombing the buildings
while Sherman tanks and flight
after flight of Allied planes met the
enemy armored onslaughts headon
Swedish correspondents in Berlin
reported the last German civilians
had been removed by night from
Aachen, whose complete encircle-
ment, the Germans said, was an OBJ
jective of the Ubach drive.
Germans Admit Breach.
Admitting a breach had been
made, today's German communique
said: THE enemy started another
attack from his breakthrough in ar
eastern and northeastern direction
He was, however, checked by ou1
own counterthrusts. Forty enemy
tanks have been destroyed in the
course of a recent two days"
Another breakthrough was ac-
knowledged by the enemy in the
area north of Nancy, in the Asneri-
can Sd Army sector.
To the north, the Germans de-
clared, more Allied parachutists had
been dropped in Holland to rein
force the Allied-held western loop
between the Neder Rhine and the
Waal west of Arnhem and Nijmegen
in Holland.
Strong Nazi Defenses.
Although the Americans at Ubach
were through the main belt of Sieg-
fried defenses, an Associated Press
Dispatch from the front emphasized
that there was no prospect of q
sudden breakthrough to the Rhine.
The Germans nave defenses ir
depth, consisting of antitank bitches
minefelds and trenches, all the way
back to the Rhine to slow up prog
ress, correspondent Don Whitehead
said, and will scrape up every avail
Evening star., 1944-10-06
|Garroted Body
|0f Girl Found
AT Hains Point
Believed EmpIoye
Of War Department
From Wisconsin
BULLETIN.

The body of the murdered
girl was positively identified
this afternoon as Miss Dor
othy Berrum, by Miss Viola
Compton, 1918 Massachusetts,
avenue NV, the girls Office
supervisors
Evening star., 1944-10-06
Beggendorf, East
Of Uboch, Lost
In Heavy Bottle
BULLETIN.

FIRST UNITED STATES
ARMY HEADQUARTERS (P).
the Battle of the Siegfried
Line spread to south of
Aachen today as doughboys
launched a new attack
through Hurtgen Forest and
American tanks reached the
edge of Geilenkirchen, near
the Ubach breach to the north.
Evening star., 1944-10-06

tSee RUSSIA, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1944-10-06

(See SERIES, Page A-20
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tSee LINCOLN, page A-63
Evening star., 1944-10-06

(see ROOSEVELT, Page A-1s.)
Evening star., 1944-09-19
Baksi, Defending Top
Heavy Spot, Is 9-5
Over MaurieNo
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. Sept. 19.-Joe Baksi
the former Kulpmont (Pa) coal
miner and Broadway dime-a-dance
ballroom bouncer now rated the
country's No. l civilian heavyweight
returns to Madison Square Garden
Friday night for 12-rounder
against Tami Mauriello, chunky
battler from the Bronx.
Mauriello currently is No. 2 among
the big boys. He dropped a close
l0-round verdict to Baksi in the
Garden in February. Since then
he has had three fights, winning
all by knockouts.
In their former meeting. under
dog Baksi was the boy with the
punch and Mauriello the lad with
the paunch, the Bronx fighter be-
ing grossly out Of shape. Baksi
had him down for a nine-count in
the first round and beat him soundly
through the early sessions, but
Mauriello came back to win the last
two. So Promoter Mike Jacobs has
upped Fridays fray to IL rounds.
A month ago Maurello weighed
226 pounds. but now he's down to
1876, 30-pound loss in 80 days.
Baksi, training at Summit, N. j.,
where he has raised beard,
weighs 214.
Baksi is a 9-to-5 favorite, after
being on the other end of the odds
in their previous meeting.
Baksi and Mauriello were to get
their physical examinations today.
Promoter Jacobs expects the scrap
to draw $4,000 fans and a $4,000
gate.
Evening star., 1944-09-19
Speedy Pair, Brother
Act Help Spice Ring
Program Of W

A pair Of speed merchants and q
brother act today had been added to
the Veterans of Foreign Wars ben
eft boxing carnival listed for Grit
fifth Stadium Friday night.
This 10-event carnival which is
to co-feature Washington's own Ma
tional AAU champions, the Apollo
Clubs Joe Cannon and the Mer-
rick Clubs Frank Sweeney. against
outstanding opponents, added plen-
ty of punch when Matchmaker Billy
Blake also booked a 112Spound bout
involving the Apollo Clubs Johnny
Arduini and the st. Mary's Club
Charles Habron.
Arduini, q pocket edition of Henry
Armstrong and a flve-tfme former
Junior Golden Gloves champion, is
one of the top crowd-pleasers among
the local simon-pures. He tips the
scale at 109 pounds, yet he packs q
kick in both hands and never stops
swinging.
Charles Habron Is a brother of the
st. Mary's Clubs 126-pound Lloyd
Habron, who is boxing the Apollo
Clubs Harry Ismer on the same
card
Another bout signed by Blake to-
day finds the Apollo Clubs Jimmy
Baldwin, 145 pounds, matched with
Baltimore's Charley Dobson. Both
are enthusiastic mixers.
Gilly Smithson, Herbie Jones,
Bernie Barry, Frank Muche, Dave
Staples, Joe Poodles, Billy Borne,
Henry Paris and Charley Rocken-
berg are other popular boys on the
program.
Tickets are on sale at VFW head
quarters, 1919 K street NV. and at
Griffith Stadium,
Evening star., 1944-09-19

THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. A.
TUESDAY. SEPIEMBER -

new President. We must establish
equality between business, labor and
agriculture. We must have full en-
ployment. It must be at q high wage
level. We must have protection of
the individual from loss of his earn
ing power through no fault of his
own. We must have protection of
the individual against the hazards
Of old age. We must have these
things within the framework of free
and I mean free-collective bar
gaining.
Must Go Forward.
To reach these goals we must in
crease, not decrease, our standard
Of living. We must increase, not
decrease, our production.
II there be those who would turn
back the course of collective bar
gaining, they are doomed to bitter
disappointment. We are not going
back to anything, not to bread lines,
not to leaf raking. not to settling
labor disputes with gunfire and
bombs, not to wholesale farm fore
closures, not to another New Deal
depression with 10,0O0,0O unem-
ployed. We are going forward. The
American workingman and his
family can go forward. They will
60 forward in the size of their pay
envelope, In the improvement OF
working conditions, in their possess
sion Of more and more of the good
things of. life.
We are going to establish fair,
even-handed government with COM
petent, orderly administration.
American working people know
that with the restoration of freedom
they will have their greatest oppor-
tunity to build better and stronger
free labor unions. They will have
unprecedented opportunity to bring
genuine freedom to the members Of
the labor movement They know
that with such freedom, the work.
ingmen themselves will drive both
the racketeers and the communists
from positions of power, in the labor
That Is why the
and communists are
against a change Of administration.
That is another reason why it's time
for change.
The all-out peacetme effort of
your next administration will be to
encourage business. both large and
small, to create jobs and oppor-
tunity. We shall establish condi-
tions which will make it not only
possible but good business for man
agement to join hands with the
great, free labor movement of this
country in bringing about full en-
ployment at high wages.
Those who come home from the
war and those who have produced
Tor war-all our people-have earned
Evening star., 1944-09-19
Thompson Defeats Rice
In Baltimore Fight

Sammy Thompson, the hard
fighting little 130-pounder who has
put on many good show for local
fans. is treating Baltimore to some
heady action. Sammy KO'd Eddie
Rice, 1885,, there last night, slap
ping him down in the first heat of
scheduled four-round prelim to
the Big Boy Brown-Curtis Shep-
pard scrap, won by the latter on a
decision.
Ernie Butler, 140, another Dis
trict boy. was KO'd by Johnny
Ditto, l46, in the first round of a
skier and Washington Stoney
Lewis, 166. fought a six-round draw
with Roosevelt Thomas, 172l2.
Evening star., 1944-09-19
Sports Mirror
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Today year ago-Cardinals
clinched National League pen
nant by beating Cubs twice, 81,
SO.
Three years ago-Manager Leo
Durocher of Brooklyn, was fined
$50 for previous day runin with
Umpire George Magerkurth at
Pittsburgh.
Five years ago-Bobby Riggs
won National singles tennis title
by defeating Welby Van Horn,
Ga, So. 6-4, at Forest Hills.
Alice Marble won women's crown
beating Helen Jacobs, 60, 80,
Ga.
Ten years ago-Yacht En-
deavour won second straight
from Rainbow in America Cup
race at Newport in record time
of 3:09:01 for 30-mile triangular
course.
Evening star., 1944-09-19

delay serves only the New Deal and
tts political ends. It puts the lead
ers Of labor on the spot. It makes
them come hat In hand to the White
House. It makes political loyalty the
text Of q man getting his rights.
Personal government instead Of gov
|ernment by law, politics instead Of
justice, prevails In the labor field
In this country and I am against
that kind Of administration and al
ways will be.
Election Day Favor.
This strategy OF delay sets the
stage for q great GESTURE big
favor to labor before election day
q gesture carefully designed to make
labor believe that something 1t is
justly entitled to is a special gift
from on high from the New Deal.
I refuse to believe that workers
in this country will play the role of
supplicants to any throne. I refuse
to believe that any man or group Of
men can deliver any section of our
people by holding the power of Gov
ernment over their heads as q club.
I do believe the American people,
when they 60 into the secrecy of
the voting booth will insist on gov
ernment by law and not by special
favor and political extortion.
I propose that we shall have gov
ernment by law after January 20,
1945. Here Is the first thing to be
done. We must have, from the
ranks OF labor, an active, able Sec
retary Of the Department of Labor.
Would Reduce Agencies.
Second, the functions of the De-
partment of Labor must be put
back into the Department of Labor.
1t will not be necessary for the
working men and women of Amer
lea to knock on door after door and
sit In waiting room after waiting
room to find out what their rights
are
Third, We shall abolish many of
these wasteful, competing bureaus
filled with men quarreling for juris-
diction while American citizens
stand and wait. We shall put their
powers and their duties into the
one place where they belong, in the
Department of Labor. We shall
establish the Fair Employment
Practice Committee as q permanent
function authorized by law.
Finally, just as We shall abolish
unnecessary bureaus and agencies,
we shall abolish privilege for one
group over any other group. We
shall see that every working man
and woman stands equally in that
department created to serve him,
not to rule him. And there will be
no back-door entrance to special
privilege by one group over any
other group of Americans.
There is no question where we
want to 60 during these peacetime
years for which we are electing
Evening star., 1944-09-19
Bodies Of Two Of Crew
OF lightship Found
By the Associated Press.

~ tne ASSOCIATED Press.
The lightship Vineyard Sound.
which has been missing from her
position of the tip of Cuttyhunk
Island in Vineyard Sound, Mass.
since last weeks hurricane, Is now
presumed to have been lost with
IL officers and men," the Navy re-
ported last night: =.
Bodies Of two crewmen have been
washed ashore. =.
The Coast Guard lightship Is the
fourth Navy or Coast Guard vessel
reported to have been the victim Of
the Atlantic storm. The Navy re-
ported previously that the DESTROYER
Warrington was sunk with a proba-
BILE heavy loss of life and that two
small Coast Guard vessels, the jack
son and the Bedloe, also had gone
down.
The bodies of the two crew mem.
bers OF the lightship were identified
as those Of Richard Talbot, South
Hamilton, Mass, and Jack M. Ham,
NETT. whose next Of kin Is given a
Bernice H. Hammett, Springfield,
Mo.
The skipper OF the lightship vas
Boatswain Edgar SeNgny, New Bed.
ford, Mass.
Evening star., 1944-09-19
Pukko Gin, Starting Comeback,
Runs Second to Good Thino

Selznick Stables Ariel Lad DEM
onstrated again yesterday that he
likes the Belmont track by winning
the $4,000 fall lightweight handi-
cap by half length over Tellme-
now. He ran the six furlongs in
1:08 2/5. only one-fifth of the track
record, and paid $3.50.
Winners of feature races at other
tracks: At Laurel, Ricks Raft,
$l7.40; at Narragansett, Johnny, jr.,
$3.50; at Hawthorne, Impenetrable,
$500; at Detroit, Golden Man, $3.50;
at Bay Meadows, Button Hole, $4.20.
A flve-race winning streak of Mrs
M. j. Wolfson's Smart Bet was
snapped at Narragansett yesterday
by Johnny, jr.
Jockey Tony Skoronski. who rode
four winners at Hawthorne Satur-
day, turned in . triple yesterday
while Ted Atkinson, who rode five
straight at Acqueduct, was blanked
at Belmont. Jockeys L. Hall, at
Detroit. and r. Edens, at Wheeling
also had triples yesterday.
Evening star., 1944-09-19

ing to believe that nothing could
make the situation worse. So thu
statute was passed. It has moi
solved the problem. In the Il
months prior to the passage Of the
Smith Connally Act there were 1856
strikes. In the IL months following
the passage Of that act there were
4,448 strikes. In other words, the
number Of strikes after the Smith.
Connally Act was passed increased
by one-third.
That law - the Smith -Connally
Act-will expire with the termina-
ton OF the war, as it should. The
provisions of this law and the other
New Deal interferences with free
collective bargaining should never
be renewed.
The fight of workers to leave their
jobs individually or together-the
right to strike-is one of the funda-
mental rights of free men. 1t has
sometimes been abused. But what
has caused that abuse?
Blames White House.
Let's get the answer to this one
straight for the record, too. The
New Deal is exclusively responsible
for most of the serious wartime
strikes. The chief blame goes di-
rectly into the White House and
to its agency created at the top OF
all this chaos Of agencies-the War
Labor Board. That board has su-
preme power over the vital matters
of wages and conditions of employ
ment. Whether by design or sheer
incompetence its practice has been
to stall-weeks, months, sometimes
years-before issuing decisions. For
that reason, too, the working man
and working woman and their fam
lilies have had to suffer.
One month ago today. on August
18. the War Labor Board had pend
ing before it, still undecided, 20 1881
cases. One Of the oldest of these
involved the rights and wages Of
600 900 workers. Another one direct
ly affected half q million wage
earners. The other 22,379 cases in
v6lved literally millions of working
people living in every industrial
center of this Nation. That's why
it's time for change
Now who gains by this planned
confusion? The workers don't gain.
The public Is always in the middle.
The war effort has been conStantly
hampered. Who does gain? There
can be no doubt of the answer.
This policy Of delay, delay and more
Evening star., 1944-09-19
EuqIes Lose Ace Tackles
In Victory Over Lions

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10
Philadelphia Eagles are wondering
If their Sunday 27-7 victory over
the Lions in an exhibition game was
worth the loss OF two star tackles.
Vic Sears. pro since graduation
four years ago from Oregon State,
will be out all season with a frac-
tured leg, and AL Wistert, from
Michigan, won't be able to play for
a month because of a shoulder in
i,Iry
Evening star., 1944-09-19
Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.-Lee Oma, 1861, De-
troit. outpointed Teddy Randolph,
17l!2, New York tS); Doug Carter,
l41.. Newark. N. j., outpointed Bales
sandro Carubia, 147, New York 49,
BALTIMORE-Curti Sheppard. 1913,
Pittsburgh. outpointed Big Boy Brown,
262, Detroit u0.
NEW ORLEANS Docusen,
l3lla. New Orleans, T.KO. Tony
Brents. 1872, Louisville, KY. "a.
NEWARK. N. Freddie Schott.
2lota. Paterson, N. j., outpointed
Johnnie benson, 2O0A, Indianapolis
I0D;. Reddy Evans, 1891, Chicago,
6utpointed Young Kid Robinson, 1854,
PROVIDENCE r. Y.-Pat Demers.
!3o, Brockton; Mass, outpointed San
uaSo Riyiera, i32. New York uW.
ocean Park, Calf, T.KO Bandit Villa
verde. l5s. Phoenix. Ariz. (6).
Evening star., 1944-09-19

forced to deal with the following
agencies in that one dispute:
l. The United States Cancellation
Service.
2. The Shipbuilding Commission
of the National War Labor Board
3. The regional Office of the Ma
tional War Labor Board.
4. The National War Labor Board
S. The regional ofIlce OF the labor
division Of the War Production
Board.
8. The Washington headquarters
Of the labor division of the War
Production Board.
Z. The labor division of the
regional Office Of the Procurement
Agency Of the United States Mari
time Commission.
8. The Washington headquarters
Of the Procurement Agency of the
United States Maritime Commits
sion, labor division.
8. The regional Office of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board.
10. The National Labor Relations
Board.
10 Different Agencies.
Ten different Government Offices
all presuming to settle one labor dis
pute! There were four formal hear
ings in Washington. Both sides had
to file seven different briefs and, ]
may add, Is copies of each. Finally
one year and five days after q
union was certified by the National
Labor Relations Board, there was
a final order issued by the War
Labor Board. At last things seemed
clear and the agreement was sent
to the printer.
But before the printers proof was
received, both sides were notified BY
the National Labor Relations Board
that new petition has been granted
for a new election. So they were
right back where they started.
Is it any wonder, in the face of
that record, that the leaders of
organized labor have found their
jobs very nearly impossible? Is it
any wonder that the working men
and women of this country have
felt they had just grievances? With
more than Is Federal agencies pull
ing in opposite directions, we have
been yanked from crisis to crisis in
the field of labor.
Act Failed to Work.
So, Democratic Congressman Smith
and Democratic Senator Connally
produced the Smith -Connally Act
which they promised would solve
all problems. Honest men were will