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miles, said road lying for the most
part in the basin of the Youghioghe-
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DORSEY GUARD,
JASPER FIKE.
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MONDAY AND TUESDAY,.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-21
Dewey Claims
Social Gains
COP. Product

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 90 R -
Loosing a new barrage at what
he calls lone man government, -
Thomas E. Dewey tonight declared
that President Roosevelt is trying
to make political capital out of so.
cial gains which he said were mi
tiated by Republican administra-
tons.
The New York governor prom
ised to expand and broaden these
gains if elected.
After declaring that Democrats
resent 1.-The kidnapping of their party
by the Communists and the politi-
cal action committee, the Repub-
ican presidential nominee said in
prepared broadcast:
cit is time to face the fact that
the new deal is a bankrupt Or
ganization, living only to extend its
powers over the daily lives of our
people"
He conceded the New Deal did
some good things in its youth, 2"
but declared that now it seeks to
live on its past
I'm this great national campaign,
he said, my opponent has not Of
|fered to the people of this country
even the pretense of a program for
the future. He tells the working
men and women of America to
trust him, to do as they are told
Continued on Page Two; Col. -
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FDR To Invade
Neu York City
As Candidate

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2o.-lR-
President Roosevelt busted Oft
his old campaign hat and favorite
NAVY cape tonight and was all
ready for a major political sortie
tomorrow into vote-heavy New
York city.
It is not as President, not as
Commander-in-Chief, but as Candl-
date Roosevelt that he is invading
New York for a full days cleo
tioneering and an expanded for
eign policy address.
Censorship restrictions which
have cloaked all movements OF the
chief executive were lifted for the
first time since the war began.
And, as in prewar days, the Pres
ident took a full crew Of reporters
and photographers aboard his spe-
cial train.
Mr.. Roosevelt left the whole day
free to complete the speech he
will deliver at a Foreign Policy
association dinner at the Waldorf
Astoria hotel tomorrow night, pre-
sumably in answer to Thomas E.
Dewey's foreign affairs address
last Wednesday.
That was the first Dewey cam
paign talk the President admitted
hearing. In response to questions,
he told a news conference he was
not particularly interested in its
Continued on Page Three; Col. s.
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wildered forces sufficiently to put
up bitter resistance in some sec.
tors.
One Of the toughest encounters
occurred at Palo, just below Ia
cloban bay in the northeast Sec
tor.
Fred Hampson, Associated Press
war correspondent, reported:
-Four landing ships sank and
several smaller craft about us
were snothered by Jap shore guns
and mortars.
"We moved the last 500 yards
towards the beach aboard Higgins
boats in a rain of shrapnel and
machine gun bullets. When. after
eternal minutes, we could land.
we hit the sand and had to pillow
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
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PEARL HARB0R
REPORTS MADE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 Up -
'eere'a9y of the Navy Forrestal
announced tonight that he had re-
NsiVeo report from the naval
s0uf' which investigated the Pearl
nafOor disaster, but that the court
mad marked it secret.
i'e ADDED that he was asking
ADMIRAL Ernest j. King, com
'''oef-ln-chief Of the fleet, to re-
~" me report, and the records
u 'ne proceedings to determine
"V~ much must be kept secret.
,, Rep Mas (R-Minn.) and others
benz r ' charged that the report is
csnss Withheld from the public be.
no'na OF political reasons. An.
IN tas that he was determined
elec lG ;oc publication before the
high ao Maas has declared that
Of tbo sts D officials knew
Ha rte forthcoming attack on Pear.
curred SIX hours before it oc
mira I0 u out failed to notify Ad
Main. husband E. Kimmel. ane
conm. ueneral Walter C. Short
F orsa1de on the scene.
chara teS'al did not mention thes.
night Tt IN his announcement to
form II me announcement took thu
Grin Murfio 'e'Ier to Admiral G
val con rtiln' president of the ma
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NJ ARTHUR FINDS
ALL GOING WELL

MacARTHUR'S HEADQUART-
ERS, Philippines, Oct. 20.-Via
Army Radio)-tRE'1 am pleased
with program D. We are moving
according to schedule.
Thus, Gen. Macarthur sums up
the overall results of the first
u hours of the battle for the
Philippines, a battle which open
ed this morning when the general,
who left Corregidor two and a
half years ago with a handful Of
officers in a torpedo boat, return
ed aboard the cruiser Nashville
with 600-ship armada.
The initial assault drive inland
on Leyte today was held up on
only one sector of the main front,
extending nearly 10 miles south
Of Tacloban the main city.
There, highly accurate and
strongly entrencned japanese
light artillery, mortar and sniper
fire pinned down to shallow
beachheads the American patrol
troops and supporting engineer
and field artillery units. Then
navy divebombers and cruiser and
destroyer fire knocked out the
Japanese emplacements or fore
ed the enemy to withdraw.
the American cruisers Phoenix
and Boise and the Australian
eight-inchers, Shropshire and Aus
tralia, pounded enemy positions
through the mid-afternoon. At the
same time, the West Virginia and
the California and other battle
ships stood of in San Pedro Bay
ready to resume their heavy bonn
bardment.
The battlewagons had hurled IA
and is inch sa1voes into Leyte
beach for three days prior TO the
landings.
Vice Adm. Thomas c. Kinkaid
is commander of the central Phil
ippines attack force.
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awski of the Polish Committee OF
National Liberation.
The Polish conversations a r e
continuing, with harmony estab-
lished between the Soviet Union
and both Polish camps.
The outcome of the conference
was announced as Moscow cele-
brated the capture of the Yugoslav
capital of Belgrade by the Red
army and Marshal Tito's Parti-
sans, and more than a day after
Churchill and Stain exchanged
friendly farewels in drizzling
rain at the Moscow airport Thurs
day morning.
The two statesmen also reached
accord on the remaining points Of
the Bulgarian armistice in II days
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The agreements were reached
with the full approval and know
ledge Of the United States govern
ment.
The two Allied chiefs were able
to report that the Polish differences
which had shaken the United
Nations structure have been not
ably narrowed as a result OF the
Moscow conferences, and that mis-
conceptions have been dispelled.
Sitting in one these sessions were
Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
and Foreign Minister Tadeusz
Roner of the Polish government
in London, President Boleslaw Be-
rut, Polish national council chair
man, and Edward Osubka-Mor-
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BELGRADE FALLS
in SAVAGE FIGHT

LONDON Saturday, 0ct.< Il III
Russian and Partisan troops yes
terday captured the Yugoslav capt.
tai of Belgrade, annihilating its
Axis garrison in savage street bat
ties, while Berlin announced that
other Soviet forces had penentrat-
ed IL miles inside East Prussia,
smashing across the pre-war Ger
man frontier on an 80-nile front.
Moscow also announced new
invasion of Hungary from the
south, with a nine-m-le pene ration
to point 80 miles below Buda-
pest, and also the conquest in the
east of Hungary's third city, De-
brecen, where thousands Of Ger.
mans were slaughtered or captur-
ed in an unsuccessful attempt to
stem the Red Army.
A late Berlin broadcast said
Soviet troops already had rolled on
30 miles northwest of Debrecen,
reaching the rail town of Tiszac-
sege, on the Tisza river IS miles
east of the menaced Hungarina
capital.
In Pennsylvania other Red army
troops and Romanian units overran
Chilia, village only II miles
southeast of Satu-Mare, last b j 6
Transylvanian locality still in
enemy hands, and in one sector
killed or captured an entire enemy
battalion trying to flee toward
neighboring Czechoslovakia.
Southeast of fallen Belgrade, key
to the Balkans, The Russian bull
letin said total Of 17,147 trapped
Germans were killed or captured
in eliminating an enemy pocket.
Although Moscow was silent
about the three sided onslaught
against East Prussia, an Associat-
ed Press Correspondent there was
allowed to radi that the Russians
have entered reich territory"
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Larg enforce
hPhilippines'
Than On D-Day

ERAL MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Philippines,
Saturday, Oct. 21.-tRt-Gen Daug-
las MacArthur's convoy for the
invasion Of Leyte in the Philip
pines included approximately 500
ships, and carried as many or
perhaps more than were landed
the first day of the invasion Of
Normandy.
There were more large vessels
than were used in the invasion OF
Normandy, and the whole convoy
was larger than the giant force
which carried the invasion troops
to North Africa.
From the first minute Of the
opening day of Philippine liberia
ton reports came in of Filipino
cooperation.
One native, picked up by de.
stroyer, rode with the Americans
along the coast of Samar Island.
near Leyte, and pointed out Jap
anese gun positions.
Thirty-one months ago, MacAr-
thur slipped through Japanese
lines with all that remained Of his
navy-12 PIT boats. Today, the
navy mas given him everything he
needed, and more.
He had everything-battleships
for the first time, aircraft car
riers, transports, and equally i'm.
portant, the men and guns, tanks
and planes.
The Japanese were unable 70
make one major move to stop the
convoy. The ships, stretching
as far as the eye could see and
beyond. sailed uchallenged into
the back door of the Philippines.
The support Of Adm. William
F. Halsey's third fleet, which had
battered the Japanese airforce
numerically for more than 100
days, contributed much to the
success Of the landings.
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Cleveland
Blast
7 Kills Ten
WOHUNDRED INJURED
Homeless; Red
Gross Organizes Relief
For Fire Victims

CLEVELAND, Oct. 20
F-A series of terrific IL
quid gas storage tank blasts
and the resultant holocaust
today dealt flaming death to
an undetermined number OF
persons, caused injuries to
some 200 others and devas-
tated sections of residential
property over a 50-block area
on Cleveland's east side.
The bodies of 10 victims, eight
men and two women, were receiv
ed at the county morgue but est,
mates of fatalities ranged from Il
to possibly 40. Ten Of the hospital
lied injured were reported in crit.
cal condition.
The identified dead were:
Zettie Griffith, As. gas compa-
ny workman.
F. B. Everhardt, Sl0e st. Clair
Ave.
Seven hours after the initial
blast, the blaze continued in the
inGustrial-residential area, ano
fire chief James E. Granger said
the fire probably would continue
throughout most of Saturday.
Directing scores of police in the
scared area, Detective Inspector
Frank Storey said he personally
had seen IL bodies among charreo
remnants in the wake of the in
ferno. At police headquarters
Capt. Harry Weis said reports
from officers at the scene indicat'
ed a fatality toll of possibly 40.
An earth-shaking explosion o.
one of the East Ohio Gas compa'
ny's two spherical liquid gas tanks
at East 61st street and the New
York Central railroad tracks, sem
flames hundreds of feet skywaro
about ESQ p. m. Central Wa
Time). Witnesses said the blast
hurled a canopy Of fire over frame
structures in the immediate vicin
ity. and shattered windows more
than a mile distant.
Officials OF the East Ohio Gas
Co., owner of the $4,000, 900 liquify.
ing and storage properties, said
an explosion in a nearby testing
laboratory of the American Gas
Continued ON Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-21
HODGES FORCES
NOW MOPPINC UP
Canadians Broaden Sweep
On Schelde To Clear
Way To Antwerp

Aachen, Germany, Oct. 20.
-(P-The German border
city Of Aachen, reduced to
wreckage by American shells
and bombing planes and torn
by days of savage street
fighting, fell today to Ameri-
can troops who drove the
last of it's desperately resist
ing Nazi garrison from their
burrows in the city proper.
Tonight the victorious Yanks
began hopping up the remnants
Of Nazies hopelessly trapped in
pockets On the outskirts Of this
mass of wrackage. There were
estimated to be between 500 and
1000 Germans trapped nj the
vice, in addition to approximately
1000 already captured.
Troops under the command Of
1t. Col. Merrill Daniel of Geneva,
N. Y, knocked out the last major
German strongpoint in the city at
$3.50 p. m. (10:30 a. m. Eastern
War Tirne) with direct fire from a
155mm. rifle battling at close
range. The big gun literally
knocked down a building in which
S. S. Elite Guard troops had made
a last desperate stand.
A Yank private sitting in a
window several yards in front of
the gun was blown from his perch
by the muzzle blast and knocked
all the way across the room. With
the stronghold reduced to smoke
and rubble, the Doughobys swiftly
advanced through the remainder
of the ruined city and squeezed
the Nazis into a final pocket.
"Aachen is ours" said an Am
erican officer, matter-of-factly an
nouncing the capture of the first
large German city by allied in
vasion armies. when we knock
ed out that building we knocked
out the quits Of their defense"
1t. Gen. Courtney H Hodges
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-21

my ground defenSeS on Leyte IS
land and adjacent Cebu and Ne.
gros islands, Adm. Chester W.
Nimitz announced today.
In striking at other targets l.,
the Archipelago, Nimitz said, car
rier pilots knocked out 81 more
enemy planes and sank a large
cargo ship and five small craft. :
Twenty-three additional Japa-
nese ships and % small vessels
were probably sunk or damaged.
These aerial slashes fell on Oct.
10 u. S. tirne), bringing the sus-
tanned carrier plane attacks on
Luzon and other islands through
the sixth consecutive day.
It was on Oct. 10 that MacArth-
ur's assault forces burst through
the beach defenses on the eastern
coast of Leyte, in the east-central
Philippines, to launch the reoccu-
patton of the islands.
In the latest attack, Nimitz said,
carrier aircraft dropping bombs
and firing rockets inflicted heavy
damage on Clark. Nichols and
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
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Wilmington area are invited to
visit the Army Air base to witness
the ceremonies which will oegln at
9 a. m. It is requested that those
planning to attend be on hand be-
fore that time.
A parade formation will Nigh
lgiht the ceremonies, during which
medals will be presented by Coz.
J. c. Shively, base commander.
Following the presentation. all
the men stationed at Bluethenthal
field will pass in review. Colonel
Snivelv his senior staff officers,
and the recipients of the decora-
tons will make up the reviewing
party. The men to be decorated
are: T/Sgt. julius F. Bridges.
Staff Sgt. Henry W. McArn, STAN
SGT John E. Clas, Sgt. James J.
Lewis Jr., and Cpl. Elio A. San
toro.
T/set. Bridges is to receive the
Purple Heart for wounds recelv-
ed in action against the enemy
while participating in an aerial
bombardment mission In Italy.
S/Sgt. McArn will receive the
CONTINUED on Page Two Col. u
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Churchill And Stain, With Poland Pacified,
End Farley With Yugoslav Policy Debate

of conference here in the Soviet
capital.
Stain, whom Churchill hailed as
my friend and war comrade, -
and the British Prime Minister also
discussed military conclusions OF
t h e Roosevelt Churchill Quebec
conference regarding winning Of
the war in western Europw, and
they shared the utmost confidence
in the future progress of Allied
operations on all fronts.
It was declared authoritatively
that issues were cleared up on
Soviet-Polish relations.
Premier Mikolajczyk after he
saw Stain three days ago was
described as completely happy"
and he was said to have gained
an understanding he never before
had had.
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life anG the bulk OF the damage
we're confined to Cuba and Flori-
da. No casualties and compare
lively negligible damage were re-
ported from the Carolinas, al
though both states were drenched
with heavy rains and experienced
unusually high winds.
Twenty-four We're known dead in
Cuba and Miami had two fatalities.
Nine civilian crewmen off small
tug from the New Orleans port of
embarkation were reported drown
ed near Bradenton, Fla.
At mid-afternoon the weather
bureau said the storm was in cen
trail North Carolina. moving north
no,theastward 20 to Is miles an
hour and steadily losing intensity
and hurricane characteristics.
The bureau described it as "an
ordinary severe storm with winds
80 to 40 miles an hour over a 400
10 500 mile radius ahead of the
storm. AS the storm continues, the
bureau said, its forward speed will
increase "and it will maintain
enough intensity to produce winds
80 to IS miles per hour along the
middle the North Atlantic coasts"
Florida's citrus crop was badly
hurt as the storm roared across
the state from the Sarasota Tampa
st. Petersburg region on t h e
west coast to Jacksonville on the
east coast. Unofficial estimates
placed the crop less at $40, 0OO,00
communication Facilities were
temporarily knocked out in much
Oh florida and there was serious
interruption to the northward. In
Inc vicinity of Charleston, S. c.,
ana around Florence, S. c., 70
miles inland. telephone and tele-
s-aph companies said their circuits
were heavily hit.
other damage in the CaroIlnas
consisted mainly of uprooted trees,
unroofed buildings, and Interrupt
continued on Page Three: Col. 6)
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By The Associated Press

By The Associated Press
GENERAL M'ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, PHIL
IPPINES, Saturday, Oct. 21.
of a priced airfield
on Leyte in the central
Philippines was reported to-
day from the invasion scene
where an American army of
100000 men poured ashore
from 600 ships, along with
tanks and supplies in a gigan-
tic synchronized operation of
land, sea and air.
Although casualties since the
Leyte landings started yesterday
have been kept low by constant
coverage of the airforces and
ships guns, including the 16-in-
cheers of battleships, front line
dispatches made clear that the
Japanese have mustered their be-
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YOUTH CONFESSES
R0BBINC STORES

Lawrence Henry Allen, II, of 219
North Palmetto ST., Gainesville,
Fla, was arrested here at l pm.
yesterday by State H i h W y
Patrolman ]. L. Flowers and De-
putty Sheriff J. R. Koonce for reck-
less driving and later several war
rants accusing him of a series of
thefts in this vicinity were issued
against him.
Patrolman Flowers and Sgt. H.
Hayes, of the Wilmington Police
department said the youth had adj
mitted breaking into Reeds tire
service store, ZIG Market St., and
stealing a radio, So in dimes. and
a flashliht.
Investigators also said Allen
admitted a series of other robber-
les since his arrival to Wilmington
Friday Oct. IS, from Whiteville, in
a stolen automobile. They said he
was riding in a stolen car when
he was arrested yesterday.
According to investigators, the
youth broke into the Cross feed
store, on M k t ST., between
Front and Water, and took $12 in
cash, the key to the front door,
and two special ration books Of
T stamps.
Patrolman Flowers and Sergeant
Hayes also said the youth admitted
taking a pair of plyers two screw
drivers, and a quantity of 12-guage
shells from a parked car in the
downtown area.
It was also reported that he ad.
mitted taking % calibre rifle
and a quantity of shells from a
parked automobile at the Amoco
service station on Walnut ST., neal
the Wilmington hotel
Investigators said they had re-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-21

MOSCOW, Saturday, Oct. 21-R
Prime Minister Churchill and
Premier Stain have ended their
conference here after making i'm
portant progress toward settlement
of the Polish question and es-
tablishing a joint British-Rassian
policy toward Yugoslavia, it was
announced today.
British and Russian agreed upon
joint efforts to expel the Germans
from Yugoslavia and to bring
about a union of the Royal Yugo-
slav government and Marshal
Tito's national liberation move
ment, and both great powers
agreed that the Yugoslav people
have the inaienable right to settle
their constitutional future after
|! the war. Asfas, ,<.i9
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storm if the hurricane had con-
tinued its curved course, rather
than taking an almost direct north,
northeasterly path north Of Jack
sonville.
Hurricane warnings were order
ed lowered at 11:30 am. yesterday
from Jacksonville to Hatteras by
the forecast center at Atlanta, and
southwest storm warnings were
hoisted from Wilmington north.
Hess reported heavy rains for
24-hour period ending at $50 am.
yesterday. At Wilmington precipi-
tation was 4.73 inches; at Savan-
nah for the same period, 81 inch
es. The weather bureau also report
ed 5.83 inches at Charleston, 4.38
inches at Jacksonville, 2.40 at Char
lotte, 1.49 at Raleigh, lis at
Greensboro, 1.23 at Ashville for the
same period. These readings were
released at the time when h e
storm was reported in the western
portion of the state, and Hess pre-
dicted a heavy increase over yes
terday's reading.
Heavy rains in the Cape Fear
shed, extending from the mouth Of
the Cape Fear river northwest to
the vicinity of Greensboro, caused
high water in the Cape Fear with
the stage at Fayetteville consider
ably above flood stage. Flood stage
at Fayetteville is 80 feet.
At noon yesterday the tide had
forced the Cape Fear river level
with the docks ON the waterfront,
where Coast Guard and other pri-
vate boats were lashed down. In a
low area at the foot of Chestnut
St., the water flowed over tn e
wharf, under and around a build
ing, almost to the railroad tracks
on Water street.
Crossing western Cuba, near Ha-
vannah, where wind velocity was
reported as high as 100 miles per
hour, the storm struck the west
Florida coast between Tampa and
For Myers near Sarasota,
moved in north, northeasterly
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