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- 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
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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.
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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