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F0—— | REMEMBER Clear and continued rather cold. up I m n ftDDflD Temperatures yesterday: rLAHL IlAfiSUXI High 55—Low 38. _ , AMD BATAAK - FINAL EDITION BETWEEN FDR, DEWEY TODAY County Board |o Make Fire Bondjor City petition accepted Action Is Aftermath Of way Tragedy Friday ing yesterday. . The motion was passed in re sponse to a petition submitted by Sunset Park citizens asking the county to post a bond to insure the Wilmington fire department receiving money sufficient to cov er the operations cost incident to extinguishing fires in that area. The petition, the result of a tire in tht area Friday night in which two-year-old Jacqueline Moore lost her life, further pro vided that ii the posting of a bond was not practicable that some other plan, which will achieve the same ends, be formu lated. "Tne only thing we could do would be to stand between the owner of the property and the city. Tne city would look to us for compensation and we would look to the property owner," Ad dison Hewlett, chairman of the board, explained. "The question is that now there has to be a negotiation while the fire is burning and that is what we want to prevent," he added. Trask's motion was seconded by (Continued on Page Two, Col. 3) REDS FOCUSED UPON BUDAPEST ■ - I LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 7.—UP) I Premier-Marshal Stalin in an order I of the day told the Russian armed I forces today that the Red army I and its western allies “have taken ■ up the jumping-off positions for ■ the decisive offensive against the ■ vital centers of Germany.” H "We now stand on the eve of ■ complete victory,” the Soviet com I mander-in-chief told his troops, ■ part of which are besieging Buda ■ pest, Hungarian capital on the I Danube. 9 Soviet troops were fighting with 9 two miles south of the big Nazi 9 °Perated Ferihegy airdrome in 9 Budapest’s outskirts after Sun 9 caPture of Andrassy, four 9 miles southeast of the capital, and B apparently were seeking to coil B wound the eastern part of the 9 Heavily reinforced German ■ “ock troops checked the Rus ■ sjans yesterday, however, the 9 ‘ osco'v communique announcing Jo essential change in the situa H non. 1 Soviet bombers carried out a ■ “wn-to-dusk attack on the ene 9 ,1s ^efense belt and communi ■ . !ons at the near of the capital, B tbrraJ“df’pest reP°rts relayed BhJnT'lrkey sai(t there was no B ti. ntlon of declaring the beautiful H 1 an open one. BreswSaid the Russians were Cf PTS for an°ther big series thc southern gates ■ ifi08’ the capital H number o ^ ch*otic> with the m irtrej; ° ,fug?es floplng the city ^Bk;Co,“,§,,-10urly and “seriously IB i>.,.. rnihtary traffic in the to the, Hitler’s Long Silence Basis For Report He’s Brain Expert’s Patient LONDON, Nov. 6. — (JP) — The mystery as to the where abouts and condition of the long-silent Adolph Hitler gain ed new piquanc^ today with a rumor—that a brain spe cialist had been cabled to his current hideout near Berchtfis gaden. Hitler supposedly is staying in a huge castle at Klessheim, about seven miles from his us ual mountain retreat, while new fortifications are complet ed in the S&lzburg-Berchtes gaden area. It was there that the brain specialist—identified by rumor only as Professor Horster—was reported to have examined him. This story, obviously unau thoritative but distributed on London’s European grapevine as “hot” information, at least had the reliable background of Hitler’s almost complete re tirement from the public eye and ear since the bombing at tempt on his life last July SO. ATTACKS BY ENEMY ON LEYTE BROKEN GENERAL MACARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS. Philip pines, Tuesday, Nov. 7.—UP)—Beat ing back three bloody night Ban zai attacks, the American 24th di vision plunged 'brough Japanese mountain defenses in a four mile advance from Carigara bay yes terday and raced toward heavily armed Nipponese reinforcements defending Ormoc, 16 miles south ward. Forward elements of the hard fighting 24th drove beyond Limon on the narrow, winding mountain road through Ormoc valley, and the advance “continues uncheck ed,” today’s communique reported. Long-range Yank artillery threw one of the Pacific war’s most pun ishing barrages at Ormoc and Jap anese positions throughout Ormoc valley. If the armor-led Americans and the well-equipped Japanese rein forcements clash head-on, some of the bitterest fighting of the Leyte battle is expected. The Nipponese held back their fresh troops, throwing defensive forces into “piecemeal” counterat tacks against the Yank perimeter, four miles south of Carigara bay. Chanting, shrieking, banzai-yell ing Nipponese charged the Ameri cans in three separate assaults but failed to pierce the line of veteran Yank infantrymen. Japa nese losses were, known to be heavy. Enemy forces were installed in what the- communique called “fa vorable defensive terrain,” appar ently in hills dominating the high way. But on one side of the advanc ing Americans, 155 MM “long tom” field guns blasted defensive positions with a thunderous bar rage that reached into Ormoc town itself. Simultaneously, other Yank ar tillery units blasted bivouacs, gun positions and lines of communica tion throughout the valley. * A total of 499 rounds of heavy shells smashed at Ormoc in one of the heaviest barrages yet. lev elled at enemy positions. -V Stilwell Goes Home To Carmel For Rest CARMEL, Calif., Nov. 6.— UP) General Joseph Stilwell, recently relieved of his command in Chi la, came home today to Carmel for a brief rest. He was accompanied here by plane by Mrs. Stilwell, who had met him in Washington. They went immediately to their home at Carmel Point, where the gen eral will rest before taking over what the White House has describ ed as “an important” but undis closed assignment. Neither the general nor his wife had any comment on public mat ters.___ 1^ 6. Carrier Planes Hit Manila, Sink Sub Chaser IWteb1CIJIC ^eet head NSV-Pa, l1’ Fearl Harbor, Nov. 6. “ese suh'1? planes sank a Japa * heavy r.?,-Ser> Probably sank f'tti'er LSf,r’ damaged a light Manila bav s ,hrf!e destroyers in *r Japan’s Saturfay to heap high er Wester pal dlsaster in thn today""*6, the navv an ihe ? ^rWirigea from Hattops Itird fleet Jw'l F' HaIsey’ .Tr's ,r tWo week h’Ch °nly a little ov‘ iVarships ag0 helped sink 24 taraaSed 3r f,,?robably sank or k*1'1* of the Ptvf1S in the secnnd e Philippines sea. The Saturday raiders also hit several cargo ships and destroyed 191 planes in surprise raids on Manila and southern Luzon to the north of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur’s invasion armies on Leyte and Sa mar. Preliminary reports also show that “much damage” was done to five airfields in the raids Saturday, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz reported inNa communique today. The Japanese rushed 80 intercep tors into the air over Clark field in an effort to turn back the Am erican fighter. — . ■ _',1 FUTURE IN BALLOT BOX TODAY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT i ■Ming? . _THOMAS E. DEWEY STATE BALLOT UNUSU, X LONG By Associated Press Voters of this traditionally dem ocratic state, which has not gone republican in a .national.- election since the Hoover defeat of Smith in 1928, will go to the polls today an estimated 700,000 strong. They will ballot for a president, governor, U. S. senator. 11 other statewide officials, 12 congress men, legislators and other local office holders, and on five propos ed constitutional amendments. Voting hours are from 6:30 a.m., to 6:30 p.m. All precincts operate on eastern war time, except a few at Murphy, which is under cen tral war time. There are 1,922 pre cincts in the state. Confident of victory in North Carolina’s voting for national and statewide officials, the democratic party sent its principal speakers throughout the state. Clyde R. Hoey, nominee for the U. S. sen ate, was at Winston-Salem; Gov ernor Broughton at Hickory; R. Gregg Cherry, gubernatorial nom inee, at Shelby; and Secretary of State Thad Eure, candidate for re election, at Edenton. The republican party mostly con centrated on radio appeals to the people to vote according to their conscience, and advised voters of their rights at t h e polls. Chief among those who wound up the GOP bid for votes were Frank Pat ton, gubernatorial nominee; A. I. Ferree, U. S. senatorial nominee; and Sam J. Morris, nominee for attorney genera. TT 4,000 Planes Hit Germany LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 7.—(/Pi —A fleet of RAF heavy bombers raided Coblenz last night after 4,000 Allied warplanes in day light carried history’s greatest aer ial blitz through its third straight day by blasting four German cities and raking communications from Heligoland to the Brenner pass. Coblenz, German traffic center behind the western front, was hit in a 10-minute saturation haid by high explosives and incendiaries, the air ministry said, and pilots reported huge fires and smoke ris ing nearly 10,000 feet. The daylong strikes were car ried out by 2,500 heavy bombers, which dumped 8,000 tons of ex plosives on four large cities, and 1,500 fighters and fighterbombers which blazed a smoking trail of destruction along enemy communi cation lines An American Eighth Air force communique said that seven of its bombers and ten fighters were missing, but “some of the fight ers are believed to be safe in friendly territory.” From England, 1,100 American heavies and 700 fighters left “clouds of black smoke” puffing up from Hamburg and Harburg in the north and another 750 RAF heavyweights and 300 escort fight ers gave Gelsenkirchen" in the Ruhr its fourth blasting in 10 days. 31 States Will Choose Governors By Nightfall -—- + WASHINGTON Nov. 6—<P>—Vot-| ers in 31 states will choose gover-| nors in tomorrow s elections, and several states also will ballot orj Public policy questions tnat have attracted national interest. For example, Nebraska will de cide in a referendum whether to adopt statewide prohibition. Missou ri is to vote on a proposed uni cameral legislature. In New Jersev the electors will settle a hot argu ment over adoption of a brand new constitution. And in California, Arkansas and Florida, there will be widely-watch ed tests of popular sentiment on proposals to outlaw the closed shop by providing that no person shall be denied employment in those states because of affiliation or non affiliation with a labor union. In the gubernatorial elections, politicians will ba watching to see whether the steady Republican gains since 1938 will be continued. Involved in the 31 contests arc gubernatorial seats now held by 19 Republicans and 12 Democrats. In the nation as a whole. Republicans control 26 state capitals and Demo crats 22. That compares with only eight GOP governors and 40 Demo crats at the peak o' Democratic party power in 1936. In the 1942 elections, Republicans scored a net gain of five governorships. Among the more populous states electing governor.-, this year are Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts. Michigan and Oniu. Republican Governor Dwight H. Green of Illinois is opposed in his second-term bid by Thomas J. Courtney, Democratic state’s attor ney of Cook county (Chicago). In Indiana, democratic Senator Sam uel D. Jackson, who was chairman of this year’s democratic national convention, seeks to step into the governor’s chair being vacated by Gov. Henry F. Schricker. The latter also a democrat, is running for sen ator. The republican nominee in Indiana is Ralph F. Gates, Colum bia City lawyer. Ohio’s gubernatorial race is be tween two mayors — republican James Garfield Stewart of Cincin nati and democrat Frank J. Lau sche of Cleveland Another big city mayor, Maurice J Tobin of Boston,, is the democratic aspirant in Mas continued on Page Two, Col. 2) FOUR POLLS GIVE ROOSEVELT LEAD NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—W—Four nationwide polls give President Roosevelt a slight lead as the na tion’s voters prepare to decide between him and Gov. Thornes E. Dewey tomorrow, but all agree that the presidential race is like ly to be too close to try to pick a winner. A fifth poll conducted in 28 counties of 15 states by Emil Hurja. associate publisher of Path finder magazine, gives the edge to Dewey. Its validity was chal lenged by democratic national Chairman Robert E. Hannegan, who described Hurja in a state ment as an employe of “republi can oil man Joe Pew.” Informed of the poll findings, Herbert Brownell, Jr., republi can national chairman, told a press conference the republicans’ own canvass “confirms my Sun day statement that we cannot concede a single state outside the solid South. Here are the results reported by the nationwide polls, all of which accompanied them with the qualification that several factors, including the service vote, could change the picture in a number of “pivotal states.” Gallup—51.5 per cent of civilian vote for Roosevelt; 18 states with 165 electoral votes sure for Roose velt, 10 with 85 electoral votes sure for Dewey, 20 with 181 in doubt. Total, giving doubtful states to candidate with slight edge: Roosevelt 292 electoral votes, Dewey 239. (It takes 266 to win.) Fortune Magazine—53.6 per cent of ■ civilian popular vote for Roose velt on basis of “attitude ques tions”, 52.5 per cent for him in secret ballot poll. Elmo Roper, who conducts Fortune’s survey, expresses “personal belief” Roose velt would win by “comfortable majority.” Crossley—52 per cent of major (Continued on Page Two, Col. 2) U. S. Infantry Regains Most Of Lost Ground SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITION ARY FORCE, Paris, Nov. 6.—— American infantry driven from Vossenack by a vicious counterat tack, seized the initiative lgte to day, recaptured most of the lost ground and fought back into the center of this stronghold 13 miles southeast of Aac.ien. Two miles to the southeast, Lt. Gen. Courtney H Hodges’ First ar my troops scored small gains in the forest west of Schmidt despite fierce artillery fire. Two miles north of Vossenack they beat off German counterblows west of the village of Hurtgcn. (A front dispatch said fighter bombers, bent on smoking the Ger- j mans from strong points in Hurt gen forest guarding the Cologne plain, set fires raging in the forest! and enemy casua’ties were believ-1 ed heavy.) In southwstern Holland, Cana- j dian forces fought up to Willem stad, site of an escape ferry, after the Germans nine miles east blew up the road and ■ ail bridges across the Maas (Meus;) river at Moer dijk to head off pursuit. Reconnaissance pilots disclosed that two spans of the railway bridge, one of Europe’s longest. 660,000 GERMANS TAKEN BY ALLIES SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, Nov. 6.—I.?)—Seven Allied -armies have- seized more than 660,000 German prisoners since D-Day, a recapitulation show ed tonight. The U. S. First Army leads the rest with 200,138 captives, while the U. S. Third Army has taken 102,523. The breakdown by groups and armies is based on figures for the Twelfth and Twenty-First Army groups up to midnight, Nov. 5-6, and for the Sixth Army group and the Ninth U. S. Army up to Oct. 27. The Sixth Army groups totals now are probably apprecciably higher, because it has been on the attack in the Vosges mountains since its totals were compiled. The breakdown: Twelfth Army Group — U. S. First Army, 200,138; U. S. Third Army, 102.523.. Twenty-First Army Group — Canadian First Army 92,305; British Second Army, 86.259; not credited to either army but in army group pens, 20.000. Sixth Army Group—French First Army, 57,939; U. S. Seventh Army. 50.916. Brittany—U. S. Ninth Army, 50,000. DEWEY HOIjds OUT ON PBFSS STAFF ALBANY, N. Y„ Nov. 6. — UP)— Gov. Thomas E. Dewey closed his presidential campaign tonight by departing from custom- and with holding the text of his final broad cast until the moment he was to go on the air. Reporters, who throughout the campaign had been given copies of the republican nominee’s ma jor broadcasts hours in advance, were told at 8 p.m. that the text would not be released until the actual time of de’ivery! -V Th ree Lives Threatened Li ANBURY, N. C., Nov. 6.—In state Bureau of*' Investigation agents are tracing the1 identity of the writer of a letter which threat ened the lives of three Stokes county officials and to blow up the stokes courthouse should the de mocrats win the election tomor row, Solicitor Ralph J.' Scott re vealed tonight. Solicitor Scott, Sheriff John L. Taylor and A. J. Ellington, chair man of the Stokes county board of elections, all of Danbury, were threatened in the letter which was signed “an able committee.” Scott said the letter bore a king post mark and was written in pencil on school paper. He said the auth or was apparently uneducated. Scott said the ^letter had been referred to the FBI for investi gation. I 44,000,000 LIABLE TO CAST VOTE .* The County’s Largest Vote Likely Today Today New Hanover county and Wilmington voters will go to the polls in 18 precincts and cast their ballots for public officials, from the President of the United States to township constables, in what is expected by H. G. Carney, chair man of the County Board of elec tions, to be the largest vote in the history of the county. Special buses will be operated between Camp Davis and Wilming ton throughout the day in order that military and civilian person nel at the post may have ample opportunity to cast their votes. The 18.741 registered voters of the county will have the opportu nity to vote for their choice of 54 candidates any time between 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. today. Besides the race for president, officers to be voted on by New Hanover countians include Demo crats listed first): TT. S. senator, Clyde R. Hoey and A. I. Ferree; governor, R. Gregg Cherry and Frank C. Patton; lieu tenant governor, L. Y. Ballentine and George L. Greene, secretary of state, Thad Eure and W. H. Gragg; state auditor, George Ross Pou and J. M. Van Hoy state treasurer, Charles M. Johnson and S. B. Ro berts; attorney general, Harry Mc Mullan and Sam J. Morris; sup erintendent of public instruction, Clyde A. Erwin and B. Carl Fus sell; commissioner of agriculture: W. Kerr Scott and Clarence T. Al len; insurance commissioner, Wil liam P. Hodges and Halsey R. Lea vitt; commissioner of labor, For est H. Shuford and James E. Spence, Jr.; associated justice of Supreme court, A. A. F. Seawel! and E. P. Stilwell and associate justice of the Supreme court, Wil liam A. Devin and Algernon L Butler. Representative to Congress from the Seventh district, J. Bayard Clark and Josiah A. Maultshv. State senator, Roy H. Rowe and Henry Vann, democrats, and H. E Rodgers and John B. Williams, Sr., republicans; member of state house of representatives, Jack (j. LeGrand and J. A. Bodine; regis ter of deeds, A. B. Rhodes, unop posed; county commissioners, Ad dison Hewlett, James M. Hall. Lewis J. Coleman, democrats, and William C. Shaw, republican; Har nett township justice of the peace, M. B. Register, unopposed; Har nett constable, R. H. Knowles, un opposed; Wilmington township jus tices of the peace, Thomas B. Hughes, C. H. Casteen, J. F. Jor dan, Coy Etheridge, Sr. and E. Fred Banck, all unopposed; Wil mington constable, David F. Sand lin, unopposed; Masonboro town ship justice of the peace, F. Por ter Davis, democrat, and W. A. Cannon, republican New Hanover county schools will be open all day today as As sistant School Superintendent J. W. (trice pointed out that no interfer ence with school routine was ex pected. Some precinct registration sites are located at schools. The qualified absentee ballots, he explained, will be placed in the precinct boxes in which the absent persons reside, or did reside, and be counted along with those to be cast today. 30,000 BOXES OPEN Total Of 1,114 Candidates Before The People In Wartime Election By The Associated Press It’s up to you now, Mr. and Mrs. Voter! The candidates have had their say. The issues have been drawn. The first war time presidential campaign since the Civil war is over. And before daylight this morning pollinv places were l-eadied for lever pulling and X marking which will deter mine whether democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt gets another term or republican Thomas E. Dewey takes a four-year lease on the White House. With a decided change of pace, the campaign faded out last night. Dewey had spent the day quietly in Albany, N. Y., prior to a last appearance on the radio last night. Mr. Roosevelt, leading up to a final radio talk of his own, made his customary taur of neighbor ing Hudson valley towns. In Washington, Vice President Wallace had a prediction of his own—that Mr. Roosevelt will car ry two-thirds of the states, get a hundred more electoral votes than he needs, and a 3,000,000 margin ii^ the popular vote. It remains for some 44,000,000 voters, conscious of war, aware that peace must be made to en dure. to decide today between the President and Dewey. The polling places, 130,000 of them, are opening as early as 6 a.m., eastern war time to the march of the voters. The last ones close 17 hours later. In the interval, the political for tunes of 1,114 candidates—for Pres ident, vice president, governor, se nate and house—will be settled. But it may be days or weeks be (Continued on Pave Two, Col 1) --V HYDE PARK, N. Y„ Nov. 6— (JP)—President Roosevelt clos ed his fourth-term campaign to night with an appeal for 50, 000,000 votes tomorrow so “the world will respect our demo cracy” and the fight to at tain a permanent world peace. ALBANY, N. Y„ Nov. 6-W— Gov. Thomas E. Dewey de clated tonight that the demo- _ cratic campaign was pitched on a “bald plea for the reelec tion—so long as he lives, of whoever happens to be presi dent.’' PRESIDENT SMILES ON NEIGHBORHOOD HYDE PARK, N. Y„ Nov. 6—Wl— President Roosevelt, expressing confidence of his re-election at al most every stop, closed his fourth term campaign today with an open car ride through the towns of his Hudson valley neighbors. He wore a brown felt hat and a fur-collared overcoat to protect him from the crisp November air A light flurry of snow fell during the morning but the weather had clear ed by the time the President start ed his ride—a campaign tradition with him. “I’m still going strong and I jope to come back,” he told a crowd at Beacon. “And I think I’m going to, for an occasmnal trip from Washington, D. C. for the next four years.” Stalin Calls For Armed MightFor Postwar Peace LONDON, Nov 6—OW— Premier! Marshal Stalin appealed tonight for. the creation of a special armed organization of the United Nations' after the war with power to act im-1 mediately “to avert or suppress aggression.” In an address to a cherring Mos-! cow throng on the eve of the 27th anniversary of the Russian revo lution, the premier declared that Germany is "on the verge of in evitable catastrophe,” and added; the solemn declaration that future wars must be made impossible. “The only way is to create a special organization of the United Nations to preserve peace and se / curity, give it aimed forces and make it responsible to apply them immediately to avert or suppress aggression,” Stalin proclaimed. “This is not like the League of Nations, without resources or pow ers, but will be a new, armed or ganization to avert wars. It will be effective if the great powers which bore the brunt of the war continue to work unanimously and in con cord—and only so. “The alliance of Russia, the United States and Great Britain la virtally important for all. If it has stood so far, the stronger it will (Continued on Page Two, Col. 5)