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PIERL0T MOVES
TO STEM REVOLT

BRUSSELS Nov. Is. - up -
Premier Hubert Pierlot rushed
back to Brussels from his country
home in Luxembourg today to deal
with the crisis which resulted in
a bloody clash yesterday between
black helmeted state police and a
crowd of Enforcement demon
strators.
The premier was expected to
call an emergency meeting of his
cabinet tomorrow to deal with the
situation.
Fernard DeMany, leader Of the
anti government resistance move
ment said yesterdays clash pre-
cipitated the final schism between
the Pier1ot regime and the varl-
GUS resistance movements.
There can be no compromise,
he said in an interview, until
yesterday it was a misunderstand-
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ToAidLeyte,
Loss Ships
4 Resistance De.
seed Steadily Decreas-
ing On Isle

GENERAL M'ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, PHILIP
PINES, Monday, Nov. II. =
P-American fighter planes
sank three more Japanese
vessels carrying reinforce
ments to Leyte islands Or
moe corridor, where Nippon
csc resistance is "steadily de-
creasing" under Yank press
ure, headquarters announced
today.
Warhawks and Thunderbolts. in
mast-height strafing and bombing
attacks, destroyed three small
transport-cargo vessels early Sat
urday evening off the north tip of
Cebu. They appeared to be prepar-
ing for night run to Ormoc, with
supplies and an undetermined
number Of troops aboard.
In their effort to stave off dis
aster along the heavily-hammered
.Yamashita line, the japanese have
lost at least 1900 troops, SO con-
voy vessels and IA escorting war
ships, destroyed in the aerial
smashing of reinforcement at
tempts. Four ships and some $500
men were lost Friday off Masbate
island.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur, in to-
ed Japanese resistance in Ormoc
days communique, noted decreas
corridor while reporting that the
32nd division continued to press
southwark beyond shell-battered
Limon. The extent of the gain was
not announced.
1ne 32nd "easily' threw back a
light Japanese counterattack, the
communique said.
Units of the 18th Division, mean
while, repulsed a second enemy
night attack near Palanas II miles
south Of Ormoc. That port is the
goal of the THIS slow push north
ward along the coastal highway.
There was no slackening in jap
anese air activity yesterday, as
the moon frightened. Nipponese
bombers began attacks against the
Tacloban sector early in the eve
ming, causing some damage and
casualties. Four of the attackers
were shot down by anti-aircraft
fire.
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us. Views On Argentina
Static After Hull'S Move

WASHINGTON, Nov. &c. Up -
United States policy toward the
Farrell regime of Argentina will
undergo no change as the result
of Cordell Hulrs decision to resign
as Secretary of State.
High diplomatic officials of. this
government emphasized this point
tonight in studying the possible eff
feet on United States foreign policy
of the cabinet members departure
from office because of i'll health.
The answer, it was pointed out,
to any specula ton that HulPs re-
tirement might bring a less Wig
orous Washington attitude toward
the Farrell government, lies in
President Roosevelt's pointed dec
laration of September 20.
At that time the President back
ed up without reservation his Sec
rotary of State in blocking any
attempt to picture Hull as waging
an individual battle with the Far
EEL regime without the support OF
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President Roosevelt or the Ameri-
can people.
The President, in warning the
current Argentine government that
it would be held accountable for
its actions and for its aid to the
Axis, repeated Secretary Hull S
charge that Argentina had not full
filled its inter-American obllga-
tons.
The President made his declara-
ton at that time, he said, be
cause it has come to my attention
that the Nazi radio beamed to Lat
in America, the pro-Nazis press IN
Argentina, as well as few IT.
responsible individuals and groups
in this and certain other repub-
lies, seek to undermine the posi-
ton of the American republics and
our associates among the United
Nations by fabricating and circE'
lating the vicious rumor that our
counsels are divided on the course
Of our policy toward Argentina. ="
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DECISION HELD
DUE TO HEALTH
Roosevelt Expected To
Take Speedy Action
On Development
SPECULATION IS HIGH
Senators Deplore Loss OF
Prominent World Peace
Advocate
Copyright 1914 by The APP

Copyright 1914 by The AP
WASHINGTON, Noy. 2e.
"A high Government source
said tonight that Secretary OF
State Cordell Hull had resign
ed because of i'll health.
Quick action is expected
from the White House, with
indications that President
Roosevelt will accept the res
ignation. There is, however. a
possibility the President may
want to leave the way open
for Hull to return later.
The source Of the Information,
who could not be quoted hv name.
said i'll health, which has kept the
73-year-old secretary away from
his office for frightening periods,
was the only reason.
Hull has been i'll in the Naval
hospital in Bethesda, Md, for the
last five weeks.
His current illness was not de.
scribed as serious, but was re.
ported such that he is expected to
take a lengthy rest.
There was immediate specula.
ton that if the President accepts
Hulls resignation, the choice of his
successor may lie among War
Mobilization Director James F.
Byrnes, Vice President Henry A
Wallace, or Undersecretary OF
State Edward r. Stettinius, Jr.
Friends who have seen Hull re-
Gently at the hospital described the
73-year-old secretary as having
come to the reluctant decision that
he must step out before completing
arrangements for American parti.
cipation in an international securi.
ty organization. He long has spon-
sored a plan of this nature as an
assurance for future peace.
Friends said they we're certain
that nothing less than the forced
conviction that he cannot return
to active work soon, could have led
Secretary Hull to step down.
Illness caught him in the midst
of two issues which have absorbed
him for year or more - erection
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. LONDON, Nov. 26.-P-
At least 1872 Nazi fighter tier
n Names Of approximately 200
pSirb rose to protect Germa-
T Trs largest oil refinery at
liisburg we're shot down in
aerial combat today by an
American fleet of 700 fight
ers and LOO heavy bombers.
The American fighters reported
awning ITO of the Nazi intercept
tors W. While two were destroyed by
bomber t crews. The escort planes
also destroyed seven German
nIa0es on the ground in strafing
attacks.
Thirty seven American bomb
srs and 10 fighters were reported
missing from the operations.
II was the third largest bag of
Nazi fighters shot down in COM
hat November 2, American pilots
picked off 1874 enemy planes over
the Merseburg oil center-13 miles
west of Leipzig-and Germany
sacrificed III in the same area on
September H.
A gigantic aerial battle sWirled
through the skies over Misburg.
Through dense clouds stained
with exploding flax from hundreds
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V0SCES MOUNTAIN
BARRIER PREACHED
Weisweiler Captured And
Ten Forts OF Old Magi-
not Line Taken
AIR FORCES ACTIVE
Saverne-Strasbourg Corri-
dor Widened By Seventh
Army Units

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCES, PARIS,
Nov. 26.-(P)-Four Ameri-
can armies smashed forward
on the Western Front in bat
ties Of undiminished fury to-
day.
They reached the Germans Vos-
ges mountain positions with To-
mile thrust through the Saales
pass to the Alsace plain, captured
Weisweiler on the road to Cologne
and overran ten Nazi-held fortress
es in the old Maginot line.
Those were the most spectacu-
lar accomplishments as Gen.
Dwight D. EisenhoWer's Allied
armies hurled the Germans back
all along the spraWling front. the
ground forces had the aid of tao
teal airforces which, taking ad-
vantage of clear weather, poured
bullets, bombs and rockets into
German strong points and COM
munications lines.
At the southern end Of the front,
the 44th and 70 divisions of the
u. S. Seventh Army widened the
Saverne-Strausbourg corridor de-
spite vicious counterattacks from
thes nerth while 1t. Gen. Alexan-
der M. Patch's Sixth corps sped
through the remaining ten miles
Of the Saales pass and spilled out
on the Rhine flatlands ten miles
southwest of Strasbourg.
In the central sector, U. S. Third
Army troops, making their first
head-on assault on Commanded
positions in the old Maginot line,
captured ten forts which the en-
envy had been using against them
and outflanked another as they
swept forward as much as four
and a half miles along 30-mile
front, reaching within four miles
of the border of the Reich south
west of Saarbrucken.
On the bloody battlefields of the
fronts northern sector, dougnboys
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SECOND NEW DEAL
BELIEVED SHAPING
FOR POSTWAR ERA

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.- Up -
Broad outlines of a postwar Sec
ond New Deal' are taking shape
from administration expressions
and actions in the three weeks
since the election.
Latest of these is the War La
Dor Boards proposal in its steel
case decision that the whole
question Of guaranteed (annuaD
wage plans and the possibility OF
their future development in Amer
lean industries should now be COM
prehensively studied on nation
al scale.''
In itself that makes no commit
ment. But it is highly improbable
that the proposal for Presiden-
tial commission to make such a
study would have come from WLB
without intimation from the White
House that it would not be unWel,
come.
Consequently, it appears to be
an important indication of Admin,
stration thinking on economic mat,
tiers.
Additionally in postelection news
conferences, President Roosevelt
has endorsed a whole series Of
authorities, similar to IVA, to de
velop major watersheds Throughout
the country.
This is not a new thought, so fal
as Mr.. Roosevelt is concerned, bu
his remarks in their timing take
on added significance.
Again, the President warmly ap
plauded statement by Charles E
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RUSSIANS SEIZE
VITAL ROAD HUBS

LONDON, Nov. 26.-P- Rus
sian troops driving 10 miles in
side eastern Slovakia captured the
important Axis strongholds and
road hubs of Michalovce and Hum
enne today, and swept through 60
other localities, Moscow announced
tonight.
In Hungary, other Soviet units
fought their way into the streets
of Szigetszentmiklos, on Csepel is
land in the Danube, five miles
south of Budapest's municipal
boundary, Berlin said, and also
tried to cross into western Hung
airy t'to take Budapest from the
rear"
Moscow's communicate confirm
ed yesterdays German announce
ment that Hatvan. Axis defense
anchor rs miles northeast of Bud
apest, had been taken by Red army
units engaged in encircling the
Hungarian capital on the north.
The bulletin did not confirm Ger
man announcements that Soviet
troops had broken into the impor-
tant communication towns of Eyer
and Miskolc, so and IS miles north
east of the capital.
Berlin reported continuing ode
fensive successes" against a pow
erful week-old Soviet Latvian Of
fensive, which Moscow has not yet
confirmed. The Germans hold a
5000 square mile area in northwes-
tern Latvia which the Russians
apparently intend to reduce in or
der to secure their flank before
turning their full winter weight
against German East Prussia and
Axis lines in Poland.
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Social Security Taxes
Nav Increase January l

George (D-Ga) Of the Senate Fl
nancing Committee have told col
leagues they do not relish the pros
pect of such a veto now.
George told reporter he thought
it would be "bad" for Congress and
the President to become involved
in a controversy so soon after the
election.
There has not been much DOUBT
in the minds of leaders that a
majority in both houses would vote
for fourth time to put OH 1or
another year the increase that
automatically would become effec-
tive January l.
This would carry the tax up to
2 per cent each on eraploye and
employer, with maximum OF sou
from the worker during the year.
But there was plenty OF evidence
that if Mr.. Roosevelt then vetoed
the bill its supporters could not
summon the necessary two-thirds
in both houses to enact 1t.
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WRITER IS EXPELLED
FROM YUGOSLAVIA In
CENSORSHIP DISPUTE

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 - (P) -
The United Press reported today
that one of its correspondents,
Eleanor Packard, had been ex-
PEELED from Belgrade on the
ground that she had sent dispatch
es in violation of Yugoslav CEN
sorship.
Mrs. Packard was quoted as say
ing in Rome, where she flew
from Belgrade, that she under
stood Yugoslav press authorities
"didn't like a dispatch reporting
there were many pictures of Mar
shals Stain and Tito in Belgrade
shop windows but none of Presi-
dent Roosevelt or Prime Minister
Churchill.
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EX.DEFENSE LEADER
y HELD KEY TO KING
PARTY GOVERNMENT

OTTAWA, Nov. rs. -(P)- While
new anti-conscription demonstra-
tons by Home Defense troops were
reported tonight, an experienced
member of Parliament told the
Canadian Press he was confident
the fate Of Prime Minister W. L.
Mackenzie Kings Liberal govern
ment would hinge on the attitude
Of former Defense Minister J. l..
Ralston
If Col. Ralston votes confidence
in the government, then l think
the government will stand" this
member said, 'but if he votes
no. then it seems to me that
enough members will follow his
lead that, even if the ministry is
not defeated, the margin would be
50 small Mr.. King would seriously
consider resigning."
Ralston resigned after recon-
mending that Canada's Home De-
tense conscripts be used to meet
reinforcement deficiencies in the
volunteer army overseas. His rec
ommendation was not accepted,
bu. the government last week pass
ed an order-in-council implement
ing this policy within limits.
The House of Commons, meet
ing in emergency session, will open
debate Monday when Prime Min
Ster King moves his confidence
motion in speech in which he is
expected to state the cabinets pre-
sent policy now that authority has
been taken to send $1,000 drafted
men abroad.
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alexander Promoted
To Field Marshal;
Wilson Goes To u. S.

LONDON, Nov. 2e.-CR)-Gen.
sf Harold Alexander has been
made field marshal and appoint
~ 10 succeed Gen. Sir Henry
aa-uand Wilson as supreme COM
AaAoer in the Mediterranean the
eeF' 1t was announced tonight.
1eA' Wilson was appointed to
~ sEceed the late Field Marshal
VT " !onn Dill as chief of the Brit
J. JOINT staff mission in Washing
y, Inc announcement added that
S'Ea'' Gen, Mark Clark, of the U.
y \. army, had been made comman.
W.T. W.T. In chief Of the Allied 18th Ar
"4 ~. group in Italy.
ns sus appointments, the announce
,S said, ARE the result of an
,NI iu;l between the Prime
pr aas!ef OF Great Britain and the
rsloent of the United States"
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The Rev. S. L. Blanton,
Baptist Pastor Here,
Admitted To HOSPITAL

The Rev. Sankey Lee Blanton,
pastor of the First Baptist church
was stricken at the home of J. A.
Orrell, 1904 Chestnut street yes
terday and was removed to James
Walker Memorial hospital, it was
reported last night.
DR.. G. B. Barefoot said it would
be several days before the exact
cause Of the Rev. Blanton's illness
could be determined. He said it
was possible that the attack might
be the result of a serious nervous
condition.
1t was reported last night that
he was resting comfortably and
his condition was termed fair"
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Mussolini Reported
As Seriously Ill At
Villa On Garda Lake

LONDON, Nov. 26-(R - The
Paris radio tonight broadcast re-
ports from the Italian frontier that
Benito Mussolini is seriously i'll at
his villa on Lake Garda.
"He is bedridden with gastric
ailment. Several members OF his
family are constantly at his bed
side" the broadcast said.
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Arnold Says Tokyo
Burning With More
Than Resentment

WASHINGTON, NOV. 26.-tR-
Gen H. H. Arnold, chief of the
10th Air Force, had this comment
today on enemy reaction to the
B-29 attack on Tokyo:
''The Tokyo radio says this
morning that in the japanese cap
ital resentment burns. 1t is my
humble opinion, on the basis of
photo reconnaissance reports, that
more than resentment was burn
ing in Tokyo"
Arnold was describing the Tokyo
attack on the Army Hour broad
cast.
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122 German
Planes Shot
Down ByU.S..
faint Sky Battle RACES
Wv 0yer Large Oil Plant
At Misburg

pprssELs, Nov. 26.-(R-
r.s railway bombing program
inc e. RaF tactical airforce on
o. o. w rhine and Mas fronts has
lne Wished considerably the
o tllairht and intensity of STRAIT
S where rocket attacks, it was
os sip;ni.,lu disclosed tonight.
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Stettinius, Wallace, Byrnes
Mentioned ForHuU'S Post

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26-(P- Speculation on choice
of Secretary of State to succeed Is yearod Corde
Hull who has resigned centered today three
They Undersecretary Of State Edward R. Stetti-
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FORECAST

North Carolina: Cloudy and not quite
cool with occasional light rain Mon
.,v Tuesday fair and cooler.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-31

repurchase of that production. In
case of unemployment and disaster
when reserves are required, the gov
eminent or the people are far more
likely to grant assistance and relief
than the few industrialists to whom
some unemployment is good for re-
tanning their power. The attacks made
on efforts to put farmers on their
feet, the bold maneuvers to pass the
tax bill, and the defense of the poll
tax are all part and parcel of the
"Holy War" to retain and strengthen
Free Enterprise.
These industrialists and their paid
propagandists seem more interested
in turning the public against the adj
ministration and it's efforts to win the
war abroad than in winning against
our enemies. Every trick is employed
to gain approval for anti-democratic
tendencies.
The nations effort to increase pro-
duction for combat and lend-lease
naturally requires that restrictions
must be imposed This need is taken
advantage of to set people against the
government. The whole pattern is an
indication of anti-democratic forces
and their tactics.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-03-31
BY J. M. PETERSON


The study of only three major con
tests in congress are sufficient tc
show the inconsistencies in the world
war for democracy. Such a study
will show the sameness of the issue
and that many individuals who sup
port the physical war on Fascism
abroad unwittingly but actively sup
port or passively tolerate anti-demo-
cratic tendencies at home. That is
the paradox and the obstacle to vic
tory on the home front.
Let us first examine the brutal and
vicious attacks made on government
efforts to re-establish and return So
cial status to a portion of Americas
most destitute, frustrated, and econom-
ically deficient farmers Here was a
modest attempt to put into practice
our faith in democratic principles,
saying in effect that sound agricul-
tural economy is basic to our very
government. We wished to make a
part of the nation again free, self
confident, mingling with the rest in
dignity. And it was not alone mat
ter of good will toward the underfed,
destitute portion of our population.
1t was sound economics. Through
governmentally guaranteed loans, So
cialized credit, through purchase of
lands for the homeless, and super
vision, this program promised tremen-
dous increases in war food production.
The coming of the war proved the
case This small group, probably less
than 10 per cent of the total farm
population which was re-establlshed
to productivity and social status, in
creased production of food way out
of proportion to the rest of the coun-
try and made lies out of the charges
that they were destitute because of
their own fault However, the in
creases in the production of foods
were not comparable in value to the
restoration to equality in citizenship,
self respect, and dignity. Now how
could anyone oppose such program?
Either as sound economics or as de-
mocracy in action? The answer is
that the opposition is not for. democ-
racy. No program is more viciously
attacked. Why? I can find but one
answer
When the bankers saw prosperity
return to the farm population, the
bankers saw that shearing time had
come Farmers had once more be-
come good risks so they wanted a
monopoly on loaning money.
Furthermore, a few million share |
troopers and reliefers restored to in |
dependence would make poor prospec
tive timber as migratory farm labor
and servile share troopers for the
commercial farmers and plantation
owner.
This demand for land and security
was also what the Fascists in Europe
would not grant and organized to re-
sist.
The fight on the proposal to abolish
the poll tax is another measuring
stick by which we can guage the bat
tie between democracy and reaction.
Since when did democracy place
property rights above human rights
If property is the criterion, then it
would be more reasonable to ask how |
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"THE VICTORIOUS
WAR FUNGI"

] Japanese propagandists, transmit
ting a dispatch to the United States
via the Domei agency, recently put
out a story designed to persuade us
that the war was practically in the
bag.
The propagandists said that three
strange fungi in the shape of a toad,
snail and snake had appeared on a
sacred oak tree" in the garden of the
Kinsan Shrine in Saitama Prefecture.
After telling us that the "phenome-
non" had been named the Victorious
War Fungi" Domei added:
"At the time of the Russo-Japanese
war, there appeared strange phe-
nomenon exactly like this, and soon
after, the war ended in great victory
for Japan"
Following Domei's dispatch on the
good omen," Premier Hideki TOTO
told the Japanese diet that Japan
faced the most critical" moment in
its history.
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THE JAPANESE "NEIGHBoRHooD
ASSOCIATION"

In the occupied areas the japanese
make practice of organizing the PEG
pie into tightly-knit organizations
known as "neighborhood associa
tions," holding the entire association
responsible for the acts of single
individual At home the Japanese tot
alitarians also control their own peo-
pie through similar "neighborhood as
sociations," into which the residents
of local block areas are grouped.
A Japanese broadcaster, Yoshiro
Shimaruki, leader of one of these "as.
sociations," recently described their
functions over the Tokyo radio. He
said that. his particular group con
sitsed of ten families, the nine other
heads of which are a greengrocer, a
bank cashier, tailor, an aircraft
plant foreman, a barber dry cleaner
a government official, bathhouse op
orator, and former barkeeper.
Shimaruki said his association
handled rationing problems and car
ried on projects connected with COM
munity health, recreation, education,
air raid defense, and food In addi-
ton. the association" gauges public
opinion trends, according to Shimar-
uki. He failed to add, however, that
the unit also serves to mobilize its
members behind all measures adopted
by the government.