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BY The Associated Press

While President Roosevelt made
his second radio speech last
(Thursday) night in the avowed
role of fourth term candidate,
political slirmishes were fought on
other fronts over labor groups and
his administrations dealings with
them.
Gov. John w. Bricker of Ohio,
republican vice presidential NOM
inee, prepared speech for de-
livery in Rock Island, ILL.,, bitter
ly critical of the administration of
the National Labor Relations act.
He called it bureaucracy at its
WORST and asserted:
Il say to you that this official
record of new deal radicals whose
contempt for the American way of
life is surpassed only by their ado
ration of foreign PHILOSOPHERS, is a
national disgrace. The sale of the
democratic party to the Hillmans
and the providers and the radical
element in this country was not
conceived at its 1914 convention in
Chicago. The deal was in the max
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100000 POUNDS
OF TRKEY TO DECK
SGDIERY TABLES

WAsH1 GTON, Oct. S. u
Uncle Sal is setting aside 60,000,-
900 pouns of turkey with which
to set tree big holiday tables
for men n service, but civilians
can still get their share If they
know the light farmer.
The airy is making sure now
that CT id gets turkey on Thanks.
giving, Cistmas and New Years.
so there nd y be shortages in some
civilian afas during the early
marketing Eeason.
But undr a recent war 1000
administrator regulation, far
mer who Wns Is turkeys or, less
has the right to dress and sell
them for lcal consumption.
VIA estimates that 100000, 00(
pounds of turkey will be available
this year or $40, 100000 for civil
Liam consumption, averaging about
three pounls pc person.
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Friends May Pay Last
Tribute To AL Smith

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-eR-Thou-
sands of persons who knew and
honored AL Smith as a statesman,
a business man, and a layman
leader in the Catholic church VIII
file through St. Patrick's cathedral
tomorrow to pay their respects to
the 70-year-old 'Hapy Warrior
who died yesterday.
The body Of the four-+erm COVER
nor of New York and Democratic
presidential nominee in 1928 will
lie in state in the cathedral from
2 p. m. until the start OF funeral
services at II a. m. Saturday.
A large part of the cathedral will
be available to the general pub
lie, it was announced.
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MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 5.-{P)-R'
J. Abbaticchio, special agent in
charge of the FBI in Alabama,
said today woman he identified
as Mrs, II. B. Jenkins, IS, of Chick
asaw, Ala, confessed she kidnap-
ned the newborn baby of an army
sergeant and his wife at Meridian,
Miss. :,
Abbaticchio said the woman told
him she took the day-o1d son OF
sgt. and Mrs. William R. Laws
from hospital at Meridian early
yesterday morning because she
chad a craving for a baby"
The FBI agent said she pleaded
guilty to a kidnapping charge be-
fore U. S. Commissioner Alex
Howard and was held in jail in de-
fault of $500 bond.
Abbaticchio said the woman told
him she went to Meridian Monday
to visit a friend in the same hospi'
tai where the Laws baby was
born.
Starting to return home early
the next morning, the agent quot
ed her as saying, she returned to
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5TH ARMY NEARS
BOLOGNA SLOWLY

ROME, Oct. S III American
Fifth Army troops battling yard
by yard in the rolling mountain
country south of Bologna have won
positions just IA miles from that
Pc valley communications center
with a one-mile advance through
tenacious German defenses, Allied
headquarters announced today.
In the face Of Nazi artillery
pouring all types of shells at them,
the doughboys captured Monte
Venere, high peak dominating the
main road to Bologna, won posi-
tons to the northeast short dis
lance from Monte Morosino on the
Imola road and in their deepes'
penetration toward Bologna seizee
a ridge just north Of La Selya
five miles east of highway IS a
Loiano.
Just a 1000 yards south of Loiano
an important road junction, tn
Americans were engaged in heav.
fighting with Germans who wer'
dug in and using heavy artillery
The Americans also took Quinzan'
east of Loiano after an advance
! of several hundred yards north o
Lagune.
Yesterdays widespread advance
put the Americans within IL mile
! Of the old Roman Aemilia road
running from Rimini to Bologna
Near Rinini on the. Adriatic Ca
madam troops fought in artificial
moonlight created by searchight
to gain the last German-held ridg
overlooking the city. The tougl
Royal Edmonton regiment advanc
ed, sometimes in single file to vii
the summit in hand-to-hand light
ing. Four hundred Germans wer
captured.
Between the Americans and tn
Canadians, British troops advanc
ed to a point one mile northeas
of Castgano. West of the Amer
leans South African units entered
Lagaro on the Prato-Bologna road
and advanced to positions on tn
eastern slopes of Monte Vigese
3,50O-foot peak offering a clea.
field of fire on Highway "a from
Pistoria to Bologna.
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81 MORE JAPANESE
SHIPS SUNK BY U. S.

z U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Oct. S.
-lR,-Japan's frank admission to-
day of a shipping shortage, was
accumulated by destruction or
damaging of 81 more ocean-going
ships, including three warships, by
American planes and submarines.
The Navy department reported
American submarines operating in
Pacific and Far Eastern waters
have sunk II more ships, includ-
ing three combatant ships, raising
the total of japanese vessels of
all types sunk or damaged by sub
marine action to 924.
In his last two communicates,
Gen. Douglas Macarthur listed a
total of 10 freighters hit by South
west Pacific bombers. Adm. Ches-
ter w. Nimitz reported cargo
ship was blasted Sunday by Cen
trail Pacific aircraft at Chichi il
ma, in the BONN islands, 615 miles
south of Tokyo.
In September, Allied planes sank
more than 200 ocean-going hippo
nese ships.
The submarines bag included an
escort vessel, four small cargo
ships, one destroyer, one cable
ship, one medium cargo transport,
one converted seaplane tender,
one medium cargo ship and one
larger tanker.
American planes bombed and hit
a Japanese cargo ship at Chichi
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Community War Chest Campaign
Past Halfway Mark With $50, 1926

The mercury in Wilmington's
old campaign thermometer, which
has charted the outstanding sue
cess Of many a drive during these
war years, began to bob yester-
day as workers dropped $84,825
-or SIS per cent of the goal
in the Community War Chest.
The encouraging totals were dis
closed at a. o'clock luncheon
meeting held at st. Pauls Parish
House and given by five civic
clubs - Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions,
Civilians and Exchange.
A week remains for the solicit
tors to complete their job of col
lecting $164,838.
Yesterdays session, termed by
many observers the most enthusi-
astic and well-attended War Chest
meeting ever held here, revealed
That a number of teams are al
ready beyond their quotas, and
that they are working toward
doubled goals.
Outstanding reports were sub
mitted by the Women's division,
which has achieved rs per cent Of
it's quota; the Mems division, SIS
per cent completed; the education
al unit, which has bounded over
its goal to attain 1898 per cent
Of the set quota; and the govern
mental unit, 1875 per cent along
the path toward goal.
Public schools, with all reports
not yet in, have donated 81. 656
to the War Chest-co collections from
pupils and teachers. J. W.. Grlse,
assistant superintendent has hand
led the campaign in the schools.
Agencies Of the Community
chest-Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts,
Salvation Army and the other nine
members - have: oversubscribed
their quota by 81 per cent, and
tossed 1905 into the Golfers. Wal
ter J. Cartier, executive secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce has
directed this phase Of the drive.
The Housing Authority OF the
City of Wilmington, including per
sonnet and tenants, has exceeded
its expected goal by AS per. cent:
for a total contribution to date OF
fr..4;..a "a no Three. Col, ~
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GREECE INVADED BY BRITISH;
AMERICAN lST. ARMY LOCKED
IN TANK BATTLE IN GERMANY
Roosevelt Doesn't Want
Fascist Support, He Says

any person or group committed
to communism, or fascism," he
declared, cor any other foreign
theology which would UNDER
mine the American system Of
government or the American
system of free competitive en-
terprise and private property"
Republicans have asserted
that the CLIO political Action
Committee, backing the fourth
term campaign, is peopled by
communists and subject to
communist influence.
Mr.. Roosevelt, making his Sc
cond avowed political address
of the fourth term campaign,
said his expression on commune
ism "does not In the least" In
m Page Three; Col.
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REDS ADVANCING
ON TWO FRONTS

LONDON, Friday, Oct. o-h-|
Russian troops converging swiftly
on Belgrade yesterday fought their
way through the Danube nortn
bank suburb of Pancevo, only elgnt
miles across the river and marsh
es from the Yugoslav capital, ana
Berlin announced that upwards OF
10000 other Red army men had
begun a new offensive in western
Iithuania aimed at German East
Prussia.
Overrunning 10 localities in
swift offensive across the rlcn
plains between the Danube and
southern Hungary, Marshal Rodlon
Y. Malinovsky's second Ukraine
army units roolied the Germans
back on a 100-mile front, aided
by a second junction with Marshal
Tito's hard-fighting partisans.
Gains ranged up to 20 miles.
In the north the Germans said
the Russians had hurled from II
to IA divisions supported by many
tanks into the offensive west OF
Siauiai in Lithuania. The Russians
in this area last were reported
within 66 miles east Of German
East Prussia's annexed port Of
Memelr on the Baltic and about
the same distance from Tilsit to
the southwest.
The aim of this offensive, about
which Moscow kept silent, would
be to seal off Riga, IS miles tc
the northeast, along with the entire
section Of northwestern Latvia as
prelude to an invasion of East
Prussia, whose border troops al.
ready are being kept groggy by
Russian punches on the east and
south.
Berlin meanwhile admitted that
Russian troops invading Saare
(OseD island off the western Es-
toonian coast had hammered out
a bridgehead on this large island
dominating the Gulf of Riga. Rus
sian seizure of 1,0O0-square-mile
Saare would cut the German sea
ward escape route out of Riga in
cooperation with Col. Gen. Ivan
C. Bagramian's first Baltic army
push west Of. Siauliai.
In; the invasion of Yugoslavla
north of Belgrade the Russians
and partisans were tanning out
from the big pivot base of Petrov'
grad, at the center of long front
They were attacking southwark TO-
ward Belgrade's approaches, north
ward toward southern Hungary
and westward toward the web OIL
roads and railways connecting the
lettering German Balkan empire
One Soviet column speared te
within 80 miles Of the southern
Hungarian border and within 4;
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DEWEY SILENT
ON FDR CHARGE

ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 5@H-
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey remain
ed silent tonight on President
Roosevelt's assertion the Re
publicans had brought "red
herring" of communism into
the political campaign.
There we're unofficial indica-
tons, however, he would an
swer the president either in .
forthcoming speech or In =
news conference.
At the governors office, it
was said while Dewey had
heard the radio talk he had mot
vet decided how or when he
would reply to issues Mr..
Rockwell raised in q 2O-min-
ute address to Democratic raj
lies.
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DETROIT STRIKERS
co BACK TO WORK

DETROIT, Oct. 5.-tRAMainten-
snce workers in Detroit area war
plants-the men who keep machn-
cry and assembly lines functioning
called off their strike today af-
ter high union executive told
them you can't pressure the War
Labor Board into action through
strikes"
The first of 5000 men whose
strike over wage issues with the
WLB had stopped or retarded the
production of war materlel II So
factories and made approximately
$4,000 workers idle began return
ing to their jobs on afternoon shifts.
Representatives of the United
Automobile Workers (CIO) and OF
the affected plants said that out
put, interrupted with the start OF
the strike yesterday, should be back
to normal tomorrow. Seriously
affected, according to management
spokesman, was the production OF
aircraft engines. bomber plane
sub-assembies, anti-aircraft guns,
truck and tank parts and other
materiel.
It was Walter P. Reuther, vice
president of the UAW-CIO and
chairman of the skilled trades di-
vision of the union, who told the
strikers the WLB would not listen
to their wage contentious as long
as they remained away from their
Jobs. He also condemned the
strike, which threatened to spread
Into 300 Detroit area war factories,
as violation of the union no
strike pledge. At the same time
ne reported that the WLB had
promised to consider the merits
Oh a union proposal for appoint
ment Of a WLB fact-finding panel
when the strikers return
The strikers are members of the
maintenance, construction and
poWerhouse council. UAW-CIO, OF
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JAPANESE B0RNE0
OIL BASE BOMBED

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NEW GUINEA, Friday, Oct. g.
R-Liberator bombers hit the
major Japanese oil center at Ba-
likpapan, Borneo, with 40 tons of
bombs in another heavy raid re-
ported today by headquarters.
Nineteen Japanese lighters were
downed and seven Liberators were
lost in a one hour air battle over
the Borneo objective Tuesday.
This was the second heavy as
sault on the vital objective in four
days. Sixty Liberators Saturday
hit Balikpanan, termed by Gen.
Douglas Macarthur as ''the most
lucrative strategic target in the
Pacific"
In that assault three Liberators
were lost and seven japanese in
terceptors were shot down in an
air battle lasting over an hour.
Domei, the Japanese news
agency, reported Tuesdays raid
in broadcast heard by U. S. gov
eminent monitors early Thursday,
U. S. time. The report said "aboTt
40 large enemy aircraft" made the
raid and claimed six were shot
down. Il added the usual assertion
that "only slight damage" was in
flicted on the installations.)
The Tuesday attack was the
sixth raid of the war and the Sec
ond in force on Malikpan. MacAr-
thur indicated this oil center would
be pounded until its production ca
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tering the important port OF
Patrai in a triumphant return
to the scene of their bitter
1911 defeat by the Germans.
At Patrai, third among
Greek ports, the invasion for
ces were only 70 miles west
of the isthmus of Corinth,
the narrow neck which leads
directly to Athens and links
the Peloponnesus to the rest
of the Greek mainland.
(The Cairo radio said in broad
cast tonight that the German gar
rison of Patrai had surrendered,
and reported also that British
landings had been made at Kata-
kolon on the west coast Of the
Peloponnesus.
(Tne Ankara radio said that the
Germans were evacuating Athens
and the PeIoponnesus, moving has
tily northward but hampered by
patriot forces which were blowing
up bridges and blocking roads.)
Closely coordinated with lesser
Allied operations on the Albanian
coast and the Greek island of KY
tnera to the south, and coupled
with the Russian approach to Bel
grade and the advances of Tito's
partisans in Yugoslavia, this new
est invasion promises to speed the
disintegration Of Hitler's Balkan
positions.
/ Announced only today by Allied
force headquarters, the invasion
was already days old. 1t began
with airborne landings which met
no, opposition, and the Tcmmies
ran into fighting only as they
neared Patrai.
There they found a German gar
rison, believed to be one OF the
few left in southern Greece. Sir
FEEDER, Associated Press CORE
SpOIlUcIlt Will Luc 1IlVoSAOII Aoi SSS3,
reported that the Germans made
one offer to surrender to the Brit
ish, but had not been able to come
to terms. That was Monday
there has been no specific word
since.
Up to, that point, the invasion
had more of the air Of a trium.
phant entry than Of military as
sault. The British soldiers were
welcomed with wild enthusiasm
by the natives, VINO swarmed
around them with shouts and gifts
of food, flowers and kisses.
Escorted by fighters, parachute
troops made the first landings, es-
tahlishing airfields from which
spitfires were operating by the
time the sea-borne troops arrived
at small port on the west coast,
not many miles from the rocky is
land of Ithaca, home OF the legen-
Diary Ulysses.
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PUT = IT OUT FRONT

l. " L - ~
"Put out your wastepaper
Sunday morning and help put
out the Axis! Just bundle ana
tie the paper and place it on
your front porch or In front OF
your house. The Senior Frater-
nity of the Brigade Boys CLUB
will do the rest.
AS a grand finale to their pa
per salvage campaign, which
has resulted in the collection
Of 10000 pounds of paper dur
ing the Today period prior to
Sept. 1, members of the Fra
ternity will man trucks to can
vass the city early Sunday
morning to collect the paper.
The Fraternity asks that all
paper be put out by 9 q. m.
Sunday.
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By HOWARD FLIEGER

BY HOWARD FLIEGER
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-(R-
President Roosevelt, saying po-
litical propagandists are drag
ging the "red herring" Of COM
munism into the presidential
campaign, declared tonight that
he neither seeks nor welcomes
the support of communist or
fascist groups of individuals.
The cry Of communism. he
said, has been raised by ''labor
baiters and bigots and some
politicians" who apply the
term to every progressive
measure and to the views of ev-
cry foreign-born citizen with
whom they disagree"
81 have never sought, and l
do not welcome the support OF
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NEW YORK, Oct. 5-Cairo re-
ports broadcast by the British
radio said tonight Allied inva-
sion forces operating in Greece
have completely isolated the is
land of Corfu from commune
cation with the mainland. The
broadcast was recorded by the
Blue network.
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FOG INTERFERES
WITH AIR COVER
Hodges Force Is Reported
Astride Main Aachen-
Gladbach Highway
SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Oct. s.
(P)cAmerican forces, bat
ting four miles into Germa-
nv through the punctured
Siegfried line above Aachen,
captured the fortified village
of Beggendorf in a strong
advance today. After push
ing on eastward they were
locked tonight in the first
great tank battle ever fought
on German soil.
e. The Germans rushed up reserves
4 armor in determined attempt
h, stem the American drive, which
, arried approximately two miles
S syond Ubach and threatened to
he unge deep toward the Rhine.
ID Driving into the teeth of IN e
~ IN aviest German artillery concen-
ton of the European campaign,
er Gen. Courtney Hodges First
o. ay veterans slugged doggedly
ID t,ugh the enemy's emergency
ne dnses north of Aachen on the
d 10th bitter day of their offensive
abby night virtually were astrlde
q thnain Aachen Gladbach high
on wa
r. lying ground enabled heavy
IN African tanks to cut across fields
he anorush the Germans new earth
81 wor defenses, manned in many
N. instces by second rate troop:
. shift h.errjedly from either side
Xxi OF Il wide gap in the Siegfriee
% line. By mid afternoon a tota
N. of 5AIazi pillboxes had been de
p stroy in the four day drive
m Folaveral hours massed Ger
'st man Artillery held up Hodges
1T armo, outside Beggendorf, "lt
tie Ptburgh" of the Rhineland
to but tn on the Shermans wen
he surginl through t h e town a n
VS. fannedbut east and southeast il
X. churnil drives to exploit their 10
,le cal br4zthrough.
u Capte OF Beggendorf, east ant
lv slightlNorth of Ubach, broke tn
he back ola Nazi attempt to max
nm the Willie a southern anchor OF
m second ne of defense behind tn
II rupturec Westwall, reported Ha
40 (ContinM on Page Two; Col. 2
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Cards Dow ]
MES
7 t
TWO EXTRA INNl 5
Game Full Of Thrills n
35,O76 Fans; Dome
Is Winning Pitche

dinals took advantage E
the Browns fielding lapsep
gain an early lead and II
dashed out with two tiny
hits in the eleventh inning T
day as they whipped T.
American league champs "a
3 to 2 and squared the Fl tt
all-St. Louis world series n,
the longest game played S.
the baseball classic sir c;
1885. Of
Away to an unearned two : r a.
lead when the Brownies defenir
fell apart in the third and four1r
innings, the National league it'll
holders broke through again in tn
second extra frame on blows b.
Ray Sanders and Pinchhitter Kel
Odea, after the junior C r C u i
boys had pounded Max Lanier fol
the two tying runs in the seventh
A crowd of 35,076, paying $751;.
$50, saw the two starting pitchers
Lanier, the southpaw ace Of the
National leaguers, and 32-year-olo
Nelson Potter of the Browns hook
up in a pitching duel during the
early innings.
Potter went out for pinchhitte1
i'll the seventh as the Browns stag
ed their uprising. Lanier departed
the scene after Mike Kreevich, the
Brownies centerfielder, opene {
the eighth with a double.
Blk Donnelly. who hurled n {
last two innings yesterday wher
the Browns won the series opener
and Bob Muncrief, troubled with
a sore arm the latter part Of the
season, were just as brilliant, mel
ther giving ground until Ray San
ders led off the eleventh with {
single to center. Whitley Kurowsk
moved him up with a sacrifice
Marty Marion was passed inten
tionally but O'Dean, batting t % ]
Second Baseman Emil Verban
caught one Of Muncriefs fas1
pitches for a line single into right
to decide the issue. =.
It was a thriller in contrast tt
yesterdays 81 victory, won by the
Browns on two hits. Brilliant plays
were frequent with Marion max
ing several seemingly impossible
stops. Donnelly and Whitley Ku,
rowski snapped off Brownie rally
at third in the top half of the
eleventh after George McQuinr
sent the hopes of the Browns sup.
porters soaring by leading off with
double against the right field
screen.
Thirteen Brownies went down
via the strikeout route, six by La
nier as he hurled one-hit ball fol
the first six innings and seven by
Donnelly. The 29-year-old Donnelly
reached his greatest heights in the
eighth when he struck out three oil
the four men to face him after
Kreevich sent the chunky Lanie1
to the showers. Donnelly checked
the Browns with two hits in the
last four frames to become the
winning pitcher.
Potter whitfield three and Nun.
Grief four, but the former set the
stage for the Brownies eventua.
downfall when he was charged
with two errors on one play in
the third inning.
With Verban on first as the re.
suit of single, Lanier sacrificed
The ball popped into the air be.
tween the plate and pitchers box.
Potter barely got his hands on the
ball, fumbled it and made a wild
throw to first, allowing Verban to
60 all the way to third. Augie
whiler in left field for the Cards,
(Continuer on Page Nine; Col. ~
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with them in this last stage Of
their campaign.
Trucks, to aid in the canvass,
have been promised to the Fra
ternity by A. c. Nichols, city man
ager.
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ENEMY REPORTED
LEAVING ATHENS
Allies Expand Campaign
To Dislodge Germans In
All Balkan Areas

ROME, Oct. 5.-R-The
British have invaded Greece,
landing troops by air and sea
in the Peloponneusus, push
ING forward rapidly and en-