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^__^MMMMM '•^*** forecast REMEMBEB North Carolina: Monday, fair and eon- PEARL HARROR j ~ "*_ AMD BATAAN nirTw^NO^S______WILMINGTON, N. C„ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1914___ FINAL EDITION Called Nation’s Youngest Voter — The Columbia broadcasting system checked voting lists through its c \tlanta outlet, radio station WGST. and announced that this pretty r armv cadet nurse, Rachel Naomi Williams of Rockmart, Ga., will be € the nation's youngest voter in the elections Nov. 7. She’ll be 18 years ^ old Nov. 7, tier birthday. And since Georgia is the only state which ^ allows tit-year-olds to vote, she’ll just squeeze under the age limit. Ca det Williams is in training at Georgia Baptist hospital in Atlanta. .______ 2 I F.R. Goes Home To Vote; : Dewey Drafts Final Talk PRESIDENT RESTS Will Make Traditional Trip Through Hudson Valley Today BY HOWARD FLIEGER HYDE PARK, N. Y., Nov. 3 — W-President Roosevelt, home to cast his fourth-term ballot, laid campaigning aside today to spend a quiet Sunday at hi* Hyde Park estate. The President came to the Hud son valley overnight from Boston where he delivered his climatic campaign speech to a shouting, cheering throng in Fenway park Saturday night. In that speech—his last major address—he poked fun at the re publican campaign phase, “it’s time for a change,’’ and referred to his opposition as a political party working “both sides of the street’ in its effort to capture tile presidency. Will Tour Valley Although there was no public campaigning in store for today, be chief executive will make his traditional trip through the Hud ton valley tomorrow in an elec tion eve round of speaking. Many of the political advisors and party officials who accom panied him to Boston left the Iram upon its arrival here and, ™ fne most part, only White ™nse aides remained with the caief executive over the week end. As he has done in all campaigns, -e President tomorrow will visit 7. nearb.v neighborhood com noimes as Beacon, Kingston and ^'■hui'Sh. the latter in the con til \v,n^dlstrict of ReP- Fish ’ v;no has been a frequent continued on Page 2, Col. 1) —_- XT WING LIMITED * ITALIAN FRONT E'th. Fifth And Eighth Make Improve lnents In Positions fce5?J: X°v- /i.-CTt-Activity on ea ,batt'e fror|t was confin ed V‘ J to Patrol operations, Ai feah “patters said today, al a.od Brit" k ^merican Fifth arm>' ir-ade Elshth army troops position‘l0r lmPr°vements in theii tlealj e°tber ovei' the entire front Veeks of yrcev' !lat after several flooded « eavy rains hut mud and ftotlosj, reams sli11 hampered op *?•*«*• nf the Americar cioved „nV I1! tilC. central sectoi Germ a” a hMO-foot hill where ,s a gw5 are usinS a churcl The hil1 is 3US' CaPU;red ] 'u Et’i:nonte which wa: Sia«.-!t,y;eek hy Americar ®ritish * blUer strl‘ggle ,ect°r strenoi\}JS 0,1 the Adriatit *1,n°ugh fnr hened their positions ind'r^?rdr Aments wer, ;te. The BrV.v. German artillery he southern *Sb saine<1 control o tel<ls «i t L*nd 0{ 1he Forli ai: j 50°-y»rd advance. t VOICE CRACKS ! , Will Make Short Appeal1 Over Four Major Radio I Networks Tonight ' . ■ ■ . i BY .GARDNER BRIDGE ' ALBANY, N. Y„ Nov. 5.—(#)— 1 Gov. Thomas E. Dewey composed the final broadcast of his presi- ; dential campaign tonight after ; disclosing his voice almost failed i him during the final phase of his i drive for votes. 1 Dewey remarked during an im- 1 promptu postscript to his Madison Spare Garden broadcast in New < York city last night that he had i “almost lost’’ his voice in Penn- < sylvania, despite the careful i spacing of his speeches. 1 Strenuous Day i He referred to one of the most strenuous days of his campaign— last Thursday—which began with ' a half hour talk in Baltimore, 1 Md., and continued with platform i speeches in York, Sunbury and Harrisburg, Pa., half-hour armory ! addresses in Wilkes Barre and i Scranton, Pa. 1 Reporters accompanying the re- 1 publican nominee thought they detected a crack or two in his voice at Wilkes Barre, but they , were assured by Dewey’s staff at the time that it resulted from a Then, after an 18-mile drive to Scranton through damp night air, he seemed in his usual voice. Last night’s disclosure that he nearly suffered the same strain that reduced the late Wendell Willkie’s voice to a hoarse whis per toward the end of the 1940 campaign was made during a brief "thank you” speech to the Madison Square Garden crowd. Tomorrow night’s closing ap peal will be a 15-minute talk over all four major networks, start ing at 11 p. m., Eastern War Time, from the executive mansion. Al though no formal subject was announced, it Was indicated the governor would urge all register ed voters to exercise their fran chise. Dewey’s final campaign plea will follow a re-broadcast, over the Mutual Network at 9:30 p. m., of last night’s Madison Square Garden speech. In this broadcast, delivered before an applauding (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) 1 Superforts Bomb Singapore, Palembang; Americans Seize Strategic Pinamopoan; British Launch New Drive Near Arnhem _ ... *• k --- — - • — ALLIES TO Bloody Battle To Clear Antwerp Harbor Report ed Virtually Ended LONDON, Nov. 5.—Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery launched a new as sault today near Arnheim — scene of the gallant British airborne division’s stand — and dropped “sabotage para diutists” behind the vital Arshei bridge, Berlin radio leclared tonight. This unconfirmed report came >s two Allied armies punched up o the Maas river to the southwest n a 40-mile front, reaching the iver at two points, and virtually nding the bloody battle to clear .ntwerp harbor as a supply spring nard fnr nffpnsivps int.n Rermanv. Only two isolated pockets of Na is remained on Walcheren island, nd all big guns there were silenc d. Save for minesweeping, the rater route to Antwerp had been pened. Allies Silent There was no Allied word on any perations at Arnhem, a city on he Neder Rhine guarding the lorthern approach to the Reich. Berlin, said Montgomery’s for es attacked the Germans* Arn iem bridgehead under heavy aer al support. The broadcast declar id all the parachutists dropped to lisrupt German communications tad been killed or captured. Ger nan strength at Arnhem recently vas estimated at five divisions and ome armor. ! Southeast of Aachen, tank-sup lorted U. S. infantry fought back 00 yards almost to the edge of ichmidt in a bitter battle to re ;ain that bomb-levelled village and ewon two-thirds of the ground ost earlier to heavy German coun erattack. The U. S. Third army, lashing ut on a long-dormant sector 100 niles below Aachen, knocked the Hermans from Berg, eight miles lortheast of Thionville, and near he juncture of the French, Ger nan and Luxembourg borders. Grim Battle The grimmest battle was fought ly the First army in see-saw ac ions in the deep-shadowed Hurt ten Forest region. Doughboys driven out of Schmidt Saturday struck back with the einforcing weight of tanks and nobile artillery. They repulsed lew German counterblows, and (Continued on Page 2, Col. .) _v_ MARINES TO LIFT BAN IN KINSTON Action Taken As Result Of Recommendations Of Advisory Council KINSTON, Nov. 5.—CP)—An out of-bounds order placed against the city September 15 by the Marine corps officials of Camp Lejeune, Cherry Point and Kinston Air Base will be lifted at 6 p. m: Monday, il was announced here today in a let ter from Maj. Gen. John H. Mars ton, commanding officer at Camp Lejeune, to Mayor John R. Sams. Gen. Marston said the action re sulted from a recommendation by an advisory board which had prob ed the matter. Lt. Col. William garden, Lejeune provost marshal, made it clear that the city is still “on probation,” and if conditions warrent the invokement of another ban ag?Ast Kinston, it will be for he duration of the war. fe CANS TURN ^ UN ORMOC AREA Advance Units Reported In Contact With Enemy Reinforcements By C. YATES McDANIEL GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, PHILIP PINES, Monday, Nov. 6.—(/P) —Battle veterans of the Am erican 24th division yester day captured Pinamopoan, strategic town on Leyte is land’s northwest coast, and immediately turned south ward toward the besieged Or moc sector, which Yank long range artillery began shell ing. Advance units of the division were reported in contact with pa trols of the mechanized Japanese reinforcements which two days * ago moved northward along the i Ormoc-Panamopoan highway, un uei teasiess aenai assault. No large scale fighting has de veloped, but a headquarters spokesman said this Japanese force was insufficient to require a determined American effort to rout it. Punches Northward Meanwhile, a communique re ported, elements of the 7th divi-l sion of the 24th corps punched 14 miles northward along the Bay bay-Ormoc coastal highway, reach ing a point some 12 miles south of the last major Japanese escape port. As the 24th division moved through Pinamopoan, 155 mm ar | tillery was brought up, and Japa nese positions throughout the Or moc sector came under fire of the “Long Toms” for the first time. The climactic battle for Leyte appeared imminent, although the spokesman said it would be neces sary to await further develop ments to determine what the Japa nese will do. Bitterly - defended Ponamopoan fell to infantrymen driving by land from Carigara, seven miles eastward along Carigara bay. Assault Repulsed Earlier, a coordinated Yank amphibious assault on the village had been beaten back by deter mined Japanese rear guards, de fending this northern terminus of the key Ormoc valley highway. All precautions are being taken, the headquarters spokesman said, to prepare against any possible Japanese landing attempts on Car igara bay. The 7th division’s advance from Baybay tightened the squeeze on Ormoc, likely locale of the Japa nese last-ditch fight for Leyte. Infantrymen, who reached Bay bay after slicing across the island from Abuyogn also pushed south n-f +V10I nnoctal tfiwn Enemy air activities have dwin dled, the communique added, and “were light and ineffectual.” Japanese reinforcements during the past three days have been sent northward along the pinamopoan Ormoc highway, under constant American aerial strafing. Yanks of the 24th division apparently were headed toward a direct clash with them. ATTACK TRANSPORTS U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 5.—(TP)—American Liberator bombers on Thursday attacked nine transports and two destroyers at Chichi island and one large transport at Haha island, all in the Bonin group some 600 miles southeast of Tokyo, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today. Results of the raids were not observed. Nimitz gave no indication in his (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) 2,500 Allied Bombers Pound Five Nazi Industrial Cities By ROBERT EXJNSON LONDON, Nov. 5. — (A>) — Wore than 3,500 U. S. and British heavy bombers braved bad weather and heavy flak barrages today and pounded five German industrial cities, maintaining an aerial assault for November that may out weigh any yet hurled against the Reich. British-based American war planes lost 30 bombers and 33 fighters from the air fleets that roared over Germany, an Eighth Air Foroe communique announced. These were brought down by the antiaircraft barrage, for the war bulletin said that not a single enemy plane chose to attack in the bad weather. A number of the missing planes, including at least six fighters, were believed to have landed on friendly soil, the Eighth Air Force command reported. Meanwhile. U. S. 15th Air force Fortresses and Liberators flew through a thick overcast to bomb targets in the Vienna area. They also encountered heavy flak and a few enemy fighters. American Mitchells and Ma rauders attacked the Brenner Pass railway between Italy and Austria and the two rail ways connecting northern Italy with Yugoslavia. One Marau der formation was attacked by a group of 12 or 15 Messersch mitts. but results were not disclosed. Frankfurt, Ludwigshaven and Karlshruhe, with their railway yards and supply depots feed ing the southern sector of tho Siegfried line facing the V. B. (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) Soviet Tank Spearheads Crash Through Suburbs Of Budapest RUSSIANS REPORT TROUBLE IN IRAN Claim Agitation Continuing For Ouster Of Premier Mohammed Saed MOSCOW, Nov. 5.—UP)—The So viet news agency Tass in a dis patch from Teheran today said agitation was continuing in north ern Iran for the ouster of Premier Mohammed Saed and that one periston was killed and another wounded when Iran soldiers fired upon a “peaceful demonstration” against the present government at Tabriz last week Tht dispatch was published in all Soviet newspapers but there was no further reference in the Russian press to the presence of U. S. troops in Iran. Izvestia, the official Soviet government news paper, declared yesterday U. S. troops were in the country with out any agreement with Iran. (Russia has been critical of the s,aea regime n Oct. 19 that all discussion of oil concessions to the Soviet Union, the United States and Great Brit ain would be postponed until after the war. U. S. and British repre sentatives in the country raised no objections. (The presence of American troops in Iran, potentially one of the world’s richest sources of oil. was announced in 1942. The troops, sent to Iran to aid in furnishing Russia with war supplies via the (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3)« lengthytIckets OFFERED TUESDAY Vote Expected To Be Heavy At New Hanover’s Eighteen Precincts The 18,743 registered New Han over county voters will be offer ed their choice of 54 candidates, ranging from the presidential race to township officers, and five amendments to the North Carolina state constitution in the general election here Tuesday. Polls at the 18 precincts will open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 6:30 p.m. A. B. Rhodes, democratic nom inee for Register of Deeds, is un opposed and William C. Shaw is the only republican candidate for County Commissioner. Commis sioners Addison Hewlett, James M. Hall and Louis J, Coleman are for re-election on the democratic ticket. Unopposed township officers, running on the democratic ticket, are Thomas B. Hughes, C. H. Casteen, J. F. Jordan, Coy Ether idge, Sr., E. Fred Banck, and Da vid F. Sandlin, for the Wilmington township, M. B. Register and R. H. Knowles for Harnett township, and J. L. Craig for Federal Point township. H. G. Carney, chairman of the county board of elections, said Sat urday that he is- anticipating the largest vote in the history of the county tomorrow. Eleven hundred and fifty absen tee ballots have been issued to New Hanover servicemen through out the world and approximately (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) r - i NEAR CITY’S HEART Bulk Of German Forces Apparently Fleeing Across Danube River By RICHARD KASISCHKE LONDON, Monday, Nov. 6.—UP) The German radio announced early today that Russian tank spear heads had crashed through Buda pest’s suburbs and reached the southern metropolitan limits,, only two miles from the heart of the stricken Hungarian capital torn by Red army siege guns and planes and Axis demolitions. A Bucharest broadcast said that other Soviet troops, racing around the eastern side of the city, had smashed into the capital from the north and also penetrated 12 miles beyond. Hungarian reports quoted by Bucharest indicated that the bulk of the German forces already were fleeing across the Danube to the western side, giving up the great er part of Budapest. Not Confirmed Moscow’s bulletin did not con firm these reports, but announced the slashing of a main segment of the enemy’s defenses on the southeast along the Budapest-Ceg led trunk line with the capture of Ullo, rail town eight miles from the city. , , It was along this railway and hishway from Ullo that the ger man transocean broadcast saia me Soviet penetration was made de spite “tenacious German and Hungarian resistance.” Berlin said the Russians were using at least 600 tanks and 65,000 men in the assault—three tank brigades, four rifle divisions, a de tachment of heavy Stalin tanks and a mechanized corps. Besides toppling Ullo the Rus sians announced the capture of Vasad. four miles southeast of Ullo and near the trunk railway, and also Taksony, six miles from Budapest. Taksony was taken by units driving on the city along the eastern bank of the Danube. Bucharest radio, attributing part of its information to the Hunga rian radio itself, said that Russian tanks had penetrated southern Budapest, and that the German and Hungarian troops were con centrating most of their forces in Buda, the hilly part of the capital on the western side of the Danube. Capture More Nazis The Soviet communique announc ed capture of 5,000 more Axis troops, making a total of 10,518 since the big offensive aimed at knocking Hungary out of the war began a week ago. Reports via Turkey said many (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) EDUCA1 BN WEEK OBJ RVED HERE ->— New Hanover Citizens In vited To Visit Schools This Week American Education Week is be ing observed throughout the coun try this week and every citizen of New Hanover county is invited by the local unit of the North Carolina Education association to visit and study the schools here. American Education Week grew out of the first World War and was first observed in 1921. Of the men examined in the draft for World War I, 25 per cent were illiterate; 20 per cent were physically unfit; many were for eign born and had little under standing of American life, ac cording to information from the National Education association. During the war, the schools were drained of teachers, espe cially men, the report continues. In the fall of 1920. thousands of schools were closed for want of teachers. A campaign of public in tuac DPpHpH tO COITGCt this situation, it was said. '‘Today we have almost a paral lel situation. The need for public enlightenment concerning educa tion is urgent. The United States failed to heed the lesson? the last war taught concerning our human resources, and America cannot afford to repeat that tragic mis take,” association literature points out, “so let us prepare for the fu ture by developing the most pre cious resource we have—our peo ple.” the association warned. -V Murray Raps Tactics Of G. 0. P. Committee BUFFALO, r. Y„ Nov. 5.—The Republican national committee is indulging in a “luxury the Ameri can people cannot afford, a cam paign which strikes at our nation al unity,” Philip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Or ganizations, said today. In an address prepared for a Roosevelt rally sponsored by the CIO United Steelworkers of Ameri ca, Murray declared: “The campaign waged by the Republican candidates has been calculated to divide the American people, to turn every man’s hand against his neighbor. We can best heal the wounds of this campaign by rallying behind the president. BLAST IMPORTANT DRYDOCKS, SHOPS Also Damage Second Big gest Airplane Fuel Source In Far East WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.— (JP) — B-29 superfortresses thundered a mighty double strike at Japanese power to day, hitting Singapore naval installations and the second biggest airplane fuel source in the Far East. A communique from the 20th Airforce which flies the air giants on their world-wide missions called bombing re sults “good to excellent’’ both _ i. i-L o A P CIO tUO 1U1 UIVi MM* British sea power on the tip of the Malay peninsula, and at the Panykalan-Brandon oil refinery on the north coast of Sumatra. The primary blow in “substantial force” was against dockyard and repair facilities at Singapore, which the Japanese are understood to have converted into the chief brace of their navy in the south. Hamper Repairs The presumption was strong that a main purpose of the Singapore attack was to hamper the refitting of Nipponese warships which mav have escaped in that direction, from the great naval battles in Philippine waters. That theory was supported by the language of the communique which mentioned two direct hits on a “Japanese ship that was in the drydock for repairs.” Other di rect hits were reported on a con trol house at the largest drydock and “other vital points.” Bombing there was visible. The flight, from India bases, was reported by the 20th Air Force as the longest daylight mission ever flown by military planes. The only longer one—and that by only a few miles—was the August 10 night blow by the same bomber com mand against the Pladioe refinery at Palembang, Sumatra. Hit Refinery At least one bomb dropped square on the refinery in the Su matra strike, the communique said. The 20th airforce described Pangkalan-Brandon as the second most important high octane gaso line source in the far east, prob ably exceeded only by the Pladjoe refinery hammered in August. Only “weak” lighter plane oppo sition was reported. Anti-aircraft fire was called “moderate” over both targets', and none of the Am erican >craft was reported lost in either strike. The headquarters of the big bombers said nothing about Jap anese radio reports of “enemy planes” in unspecified numbers scouting over the eastern seacoast of the main Japanese home island of Honshu. The Japanese guessed that the reconnaissance flights over the home islands came from the Mari ana islands. Most of the eastern seacoast of Honshu, where Tokyo and most of Japan’s heavy industry are located was covered by scouting planes, radio Tokyo said. Communique The text of the 20th Airforce communique No. 20: “In the longest daylight mission ever flown by military planes, B-29 aircraft of the 20th airforce today bombed the dockyards and repair facilities of the great Singapore naval base, on the southern tip of the Malay peninsula. j.iic ouirwt wao iiiciuc uj cl oiAkj stantial force of the 20th bomber command from India bases. It was exceeded in length by only a few miles on Aug. 10, 1944, when the same bomber command conducted a night mission from India against the Pladjae refinery at Palem bang, Sumatra. “Coincidentally with the attack on Singapore, some elements hit the Pangkalan-Brandon oil refinery on the Japanese-dominated isle of Sumatra. “Good to excellent results were reported at both primary and sec ondary targets. At Singapore, the former British naval base now in Japanese hands, the weather was clear enough for visual bombing and direct hits were observed on a control house in the largest dry dock and on other vital points. In addition, two direct hits were scor ed on a Japanese ship that was in the drydock for repairs. “At Pangkalan-Brandon at least (Continued on Page 2, Col. j By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH KWEILIN, China, Oct. 28.—(De layed)-^)—The principal advanc ed base for U. S. air power in the Orient blew up tonight in a series of mighty explosions, touched off by Americans pulling out of Kwei lin ahead of the oncoming Japa nese Brig Gen. Clinton D. Vincent, commander of the 14th Air Force’s , eastern composite wing, gave the ■ 6rder to set the fuses after a ! fighter pilot reported 2,000 Ja#a ■ nese cavalrymen were bearing down on this city in northeastern Americans Destroy Kweilin Airfield As Large Japanese Force Approaches Kwangsi province and were but 15 miles to the east. Except for the last-minute de livery of arms to the Chinese at Kweilin, and occasional staging of emergency landings for fighters and bombers, Yangstang airfield near Kweilin had been unused since mid-September. Buried in the field were 218 tons of bombs, rea dy for the demolition work. These preparations had been made since the night of Sept. 16, when secondary installations of the base,—runways, taxlways, dumps and buildings at Ehrtang and Li chiachen and the adjacent fighters strip at Yangstang—were destroy ed. The code word “marblehead”— the signal to demolish the field— was received in the communica tions cave overlooking the Yang stang strip. Vincent had chosen it in casual conversation with Col. Waldo Irv ing Kenerson, district engineer. Vincent decided the name of Ke nerson’ s home town, Marblehead, (Continued on Page Three; Col, 4) t MESA Members Ordered To Return To WarPlants TOLEDO, O., Nov. 5.—UP)—Me chanics Educational Society of America officials today ordered all idle members of the independ ent union to return to their jobs at war plants in Detroit and To ledo. In a formal statement, George White, MESA national president, and Matthew Smith, national sec retary, urged the 4,500 idle union ists in Toledo and the 7.000 to 10,000 striking workers in De troit to return to work at start ing time of their shifts Monday. The statement was issued early today after an all-night meeting in which Smith and Earl Streeter, local MESA secretrary, conferred with Maj. Daniel L. Bolin, Army labor advisor here. “Settlement of the Toledo strike has been arranged,’’ the state members, said, “and as the set tlement is considered adequate by your national officers we there fore call cm all members on strike in Toledo and Detroit to return to their job*; Monday at starting time of their regular shifts. Smith called on fellow unionists to “restore full production as soon as possible.” -fij •