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210 Evening JearnaJ Fsnnded DUt i.Tery Craning Foanded 1871 I Evening Journal and Every Evening Consolidated Jan. 2. 1933 C3 rf fl TIP A 13 Eioiiie Edition II I I lm iff; VW A7PJ1 rp ro) rn a "o)c ol o) la Is Lro ImJ uvJ rrnu HolJ ATT Allies and eener nrusiin Where Allies Drive Into Low Countries Toward Reich Officials Still Silent On Whereabouts ENGLAND KJT American Army U. S. Sky Fleets Support Ground Forces By Bombing Reich Border Targets; Canadians 3 Miles From Boulogne; British Closing on Calais.

Dunkerque By Associated Press LONDON, Sept. 5. British troops were believed thrusting deeper into Holland and solidifying their hold on Belgium today as official silence still cloaked the whereabouts of the swift American forces which were vicariously reported across the German border. Supreme headquarters had no confirmation of reports that the German frontier had been crossed. The fast-moving Third Army under George S.

Patton. presumably had been on the go for three days under a complete security blackout such as those which marked the American lightning dash across the JBrittany peninsula, the cutoff drive north from Le Mans to close the Falaise gap and the dash past Paris through Orleans. 2 German Towns Reported Seized Unconfirmed reports -received at the Swiss-French frontier said that Allied forces had captured Aachen, Germany, three miles acroso the frontier and 25 miles northeast of the Belgian city of Liege, and Saarbrucken, Germany, two miles across the frontier and 70 miles east of Verdun. Aachen (Aix-La-Chapelle) is a city of 165,000 on the main route which the Germans used in invading France in 1940. Saarbrucken is in the Saar basin and is an industrial city of 135,000.

The center of rich coal and iron mines, it was occupied by the Allies after the last war and returned to Germany in the Saar plebiscite. An earlier report quoted reliable information as saying that Patton's mobile offensive had reached Strasbourg, France, on the Rhine frontier 70 miles east of Nancy. Supreme headquarters explained the blackout on information was in force to keep the Germans bafBed over the direction and speed of the American advance. By past performance, it would be quite possible for the Third Army to have driven anywhere up to 75 miles. Bombers Support Attack Ahead of the giound forces American heavy bombers and fighters carried the attack into Germany, plastering the Karlsruhe rail yards through w-hich the Nazis have to funnel reinforcements into the Strasbourg-Saarbrucken area.

Lightnings caught a whole fleet of German planes on improvised and virtually undefended air fields and destroyed 6C on the ground. Detailed here is the area of Allied lightning-like drive through the Low Countries which toppled and Antwerp in a single day, and then went on to sweep across the Dutch frontier. Germans Declare Russians Across Narew in Drive Upon East Prussia Files Suit Here i i Barbara Hutton Grant Barbara Hutton Seeks Custody Of Cliild Here Heiress Asks U. S. Court To Stop Income to Former Spouse, Count Reventlow Fighting for the custody of her only child, 8-year-old Lance, and to safeguard trust funds to which he is heir, Barbara Hutton Grant today invoked the authority of the U.

S. District Court at Wilmington, against her former husband, Court Haugwitz Reventlow. Specifically, she moved to stop his receipt of income from a trust fund of about $1,500,000 she provided for his maintenance in 1938. Suit was filed here because in addition to Reventlow, another respondent is Howland, a Delaware corporation that holds what is left of the trust fund originally provided by Mrs. Grant.

Filing of this latest suit was announced by Samuel H. Kaufman of the law firm of Kaufman and Cronan of 30 Broad Street, New York. It follows closely upon a suit filed by Mrs. Grant in July in California asking for full custody of the child and alleging that the German-born, former Danish count was not fit to have even partial custody. Violation Alleged The immediate reason for today's action is Reventlow's alleged violation of the 1938 agreement under which he has been getting the bene- (See BARBARA HUTTON Page 4) Col.

Huntington Gets Medal in Pacific The Bronze Star Medal has been awarded Park W. Huntington for meritorious service under fire in battles in the Solomon Islands. The presentation was recently made by O. W. Griswold, commanding general of the corps of which the Wilmington officer was chaplain, shortly before Colonel Huntington left the southwest Pacific to return to this country.

Mrs. Marie R. Huntington, 2901 Harrison Street, has received a telegram stating that her husband arrived in the United States yesterday. The former pastor of St. Stephen's Lutheran Church went on active duty in September.

1940. and went overseas in January. 1942. He served first with the 193th and later with other units in the Pacific. A reception is planned in honor of Colonel Huntington Sept.

15 in the social hall of St. Stephen's. Push, Supported by Large Plane Formations, Perils Warsaw From the North; Soviets Claim 100 Towns LONDON, Sept. 5 6P. Russian troops have crossed the historic Narew River in their new, full-fledged offensive toward East Prussia, the German radio asserted late today.

At iU nearest point just west of Lomza, the Narew flows within 12 miles of the southern frontier of East Prussia. On the eastern frontier of the German province. Russian armies have been deployed for about three weeks. "Between the Bug and Narew, the Russians continued their breakthrough attempts w-ith vast forces including large plane formations on a broad front," the German commentator, Col. Ernst von Hammer, asserted.

Once before early in August, the Germans reported a Russian crossing of the Narew, along whose banks the Germans defeated armies of the Czar in the last war and forced a Russian withdrawal from Warsaw. The push in the Narew River sector threatens invasion or outflanking of East Prussia and also menaces Warsaw from the north. The Russian offensive started Sunday. Moscow reported 100 towns captured in the sector yesterday. The Germans said the Russians had brought up new tank and in- (See RUSSIAN WAR Page 4) 4 Neiv Paralysis Cases Reported Health Executive Children Will Under Care Says Be' With the report of four new cases of infantile paralysis today.

Dr. Arthur P. Hitchens, city health commissioner, stressed there is no need to postpone the opening of the public schools "because the pupils will be under constant care and surveillance of teachers." Of the four new cases, three originated in Wilmington and one in Gumooro. This brings the total number of cases in tlw state to 27. One of the latest victims is the 21 -year-old wife of an Army private who is overseas.

She is Mrs. Phyllis States of 609 North Clayton Street, wife of Private James States. The others are: John Cirello, 17, of 1801 West deventh Street; Edward Carucci, 6. of 932 Lancaster Avenue; Ruth Cordey, six months old. of Gumboro.

700 Nazis Surrender To Swiss for Sanctuary BERN, Sept. 5 (JP). About 700 German soldiers, to escape from the onrushing Allied armies in France, have crossed the frontier into Switzerland during the last few days" and surrendered to Swiss authorities for Internment. Peace Essay Winner Gives Life in War Private Waldo Bellow Of Arden Killed in Action; Two Other State Soldiers i Die in French Campaign A 19-year-old infantryman who four years ago won first prize in a national peace essay contest has been killed in action in France. He was Private Waldo Bellow of Arden and Merion, who had left his music studies in the West Chester State Teachers College two years ago to enlist in the Army.

Already noted as a violinist, young Bellow had been planning to write a war symphony. The death of Private Bellow is one of eight Delaware casualties reported today, including two others killed, five wounded and one a prisoner. They are: Killed In Action Private John A. Ware, 19, of Fel-ton: in France July 13. Tech.

Sergt. Fred E. Harvey, 31, of 1309 New Road, Elsmere; who died Aug. 9 in France of wounds suffered the same day. Wounded Sergt.

Joseph A. Matarese, 1404 Maple Street, wounded for the second time shis year in the Central Pacific area. Pfc. David Maxwell of Hamilton Park, New Castle, injured in the European theater. Frank A.

Fox, 25, of 302 South DuPont Road, Elsmere, wounded July 9 in France. Pfc. James J. Quinn, 29, of 1406 West Second Street, seriously injured July 12 in France. Pfc.

Henry F. Maliszewski, 23, of 5 Sixth Avenue, slightly wounded in France on July 30. Prisoner of War Technical Sergt. Thomas R. M.

Reynolds of Claymont, who was captured in Normandy on June 9. Waldo Bellow Private Bellow was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis I. Bellow, who had made Arden their summer home for years.

The youth who would have been 20 years old Aug. 20 he died Aug. 13 was regarded as an excellent violin player. At the age of 10 he gave his first concert in Arden. He was graduated from the Overbrook I High School and entered West (See CASUALTIES Page 15) U.

Britain Excel Axis Production 4 to 1 WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (U.R). War industries in the United States and the British Empire are now outproducing the Axis by nearly four to one. the combined production and resources board reported today in reviewing the great Allied victory in the battle of production. It warned, however, that despite the excellent record, there were sttll serious shortages, some of which would grow worse because of relief needs in liberated areas.

U. S. Income and Outgo Hit New 1944 Peak WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 'JP). In the first half of 1944, Americans produced more, made more, saved more, and spent more than in the preceding six-month period.

The Commerce Department discloses National Production reached a new high annual rate of National income reached a new high annual rate of Individual savings reached an all-time annual peak of Consumer expenditures rose to more than $95,000,000,000. mother. Troopers said he ran into the rear side of the automobile operated by Pope. The child's father is in the Army and on duty in Eng- land. The Hopkins brothers were drowned when Hie small rowboat I from which they had been fishing i was caught and submerged in a strong tide one-quarter of a mile off Fowler's Beach.

With the brothers was Frank James Wilson, policeman of Georgetown. After about half an hour's fishing the trio decided to return to land because of the increasing force of the tide and rough water. Wilson said as they started back to shore waves came over the side of the boat. "The two brothers jumped from the boat as it went under water and James grabbed me around the neck." Wilson said. Both Wilson and James Hopkins went under water and Wilson said (See LABOR DAY Page 4) Severe Earth Shock Jolts East; Center 111 Ontario Delaware Escapes Full Intensity of Jar Which Damages Canadian City Halting School Opening; Lo There Is $500,000 By Associated Press A severe earthquake, followed several hours later by two minor shocks.

rocked northeastern United States and several provinces in Canada early today, damaging two school buildings in Cornwall. so badly that opening of school was postponed. Mayor Aaron Horovitz estimated chat damage inflicted to buildings in the St. Lawrence River city would run between $500,000 and 5750,000 and said he would appeal to the federal government for bricklayers to help repair homes whose chimneys were toppled. School was supposed to open in the Collegiate Institute and Vocational School today but the buildings were found unsafe for occupancy.

The first shock, recorded on Ford-ham University's seismograph at 12:33 a. m. (Eastern War Time), wa3 centered near Malone, N. Y. and Cornwall, the Rev.

Joseph Lynch. Fordham seismologist, said, and was felt as far south as Virginia, and as far west as Michigan. Two additional tremors at 4:29 and 4:50 a. m. Eastern War Time) were felt in the Cornwall district.

The latter was described as severe in Canada and recorded by Fordham, but Father Lynch expressed belief it was not strong enough to be noticed by individuals outside the immediate Cornwall area. 'Quake Felt in Delaware Re ports today show that Delaware escaped the intensity of the shock recorded in areas to the north. (The News-Journal Company office telephones were kept jangling with call5; from startled residents shortly after the tremor was feit. Practically all the callers reported they had been awakened by the shock. One woman declared she was reading In bed and was surprised to see the lamp tremble.

The night operator in tbe Y. W. C. A. had a busy 10 minutes when the aroused inmates demanded information on the tremor.

Lower Delaware apparently escaped the shocks Only Surface Shock Although the 12:39 a. m. shock was described by Father Lynch ss "the most severe that I recall in New York State," he said it was only (See EARTHQUAKE Page 4) Arthur E. Flood Wins Majority Intelligence Officer At Fort DuPont Given Promotion Arthur E. Flood, security and intelligence officer for the Army District No.

6. stationed at Fort DuPont. has been promoted from captain t-y major. Major Flood, one of the best known Army officers ir. this district because oi his assistance to civilian and law enforcement agencies, has been at Fort DuPont since Oct.

18. 1941. A member of the New York bar association. Major Flood entered active Army duty from a light tank reserv unit on Oct. 6, 1941.

Is married and has three children. Purine his service in Delaware. Majr Flood ha. been particularly helpful wih civilian groups engaged in hrne front activities. Money Orders for Paying Debts Held Not Legal NEV' BEDFORD, Mass.

Sept. 5 'jr. A money order Is not l-ral tender in payment of debt, a district court special justice ruled today. Justice George H. Potter of the Third Bristol District Court made the ruling in granting an eviction erier r.on-pa.vmer.t of rent.

Joseph the tenant testified had sent postofSce money for hi rent to Mrs. Ida Sylvia, cf the flat he occupied, but -v re 'urned the orders uncashed. Po. gave wUkiruon until Fr.isy to move. Yanks Blast Rhine Targets LuuVigshafen, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, AH in Path Of Allied March, Pummel ed 30 Jap Ships 107 Planes Hit In U.

S. Forays Two Task Forces Shell Islands, With Aircraft Scouring Enemy Areas U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS. PEARL HARBOR, Sept.

5 (JP). In a thunderous prelude to the next big Pacific push, 30 Japanese ships and 107 planes have been knocked out in a five-day period during which American warships shelled within 615 miles of Tokyo and bombers steadily battered the invasion-menaced Philippines. Communiques yesterday and today reported this heaviest set of blows, spread along more than 4,000 miles of Nippon's inner defense ring of islands, since the conquest of Guam Aug. 8. Planes alone expended more than 800 tons of explosives and hundreds of rockets.

The Bonin and Volcano Islands were blasted by air and sea. Two Fleets in Action Emphasizing the mammoth size of the Pacific fleet, while one task force was operating south of Tokyo in "such strength that the Japanese (See PACIFIC WAR Page 4) Romania, Hungary Split Reported by Nazi Radio By Associated Press The Berlin radio said today that "according to generally well informed sources" relations have been severed between Hungary and Romania. The broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press, did not indicate which country had taken the initiative. A break, however, would appear more or less academic, inasmuch as troops of the two countries previously nave been reported fighting each other. Brussels Radio French Troops Push to Macon, North of Lyon Saone Valley Pursuif Of Germans Continues; Yanks Balk Nazi Attack ROME, Sept, 5 (P).

French troops sweeping up the Saone valley agafnst ineffective Nazi resistance have reached the outskirts of Macon, a wine center 68 road miles north of captured Lyon, as the pursuit of Germans fleeing southern France continues, Allied headquarters said today. The airline distance between Macon and Lyon is 38 miles. 65,000 Prisoners Taken A new batch of 2,400 prisoners taken by the French in their capture of Villef ranche boosted the total since the landings on the Mediterranean beachheads to more than 65,000. The French also reached Saint Bonnet De Bruyers, a town west of Macon, while farther east American forces passed through Mon-trevel. There was no serious opposition at Montrevcl, in contrast to the previous day, when the Germans launched a tank supported counter-attack to screen the retreat of the main enemy force northward on Highway Six toward Chalon and Dijon.

The Nazi counter-attack caused (See RIVIERA FRONT Page 4) Tirpitz Is Hit By British Fliers LONDON, Sept. 5 (JP). British naval planes scored hits on the great German battleship Tirpitz and damaged at least 16 other enemy vessels in a series of recent attacks on enemy shipping in northern waters, the Admiralty announced tonight. The Tirpitz, previously crippled in a Norwegian fjord by British midget submarines and fleet aerial attacks, has recently been reported repaired and making test runs. The attacking planes damaged six enemy radio stations, hangars and other installations along the Norwegian coast in the Hammerf est area above the Arctic Circle near North Cape.

They shot down nine German planes and damaged a number of others. Eleven British planes were lost. Robot Attacks Resume After Four-Day Lull LONDON, Sept. 5 four-day respite from flying bomb attacks ended abruptly today when the Germans sent another shower of robots over London and southern England shortly before daybreak. Both casualties and damage re-suited, a brief announcement said.

LONDON, Sept. 5 iJP. Up to 1,750 American planes from the west and south struck three major transport and industrial centers in the German Rhineland today in the path of advancing Allied armies and bombed Budapest and rail bridges in Hungary and northern Italy. Around 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators from Britain bombed Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Ludwigs-hafen. They were convoyed by about 500 Mustang fighters.

Up. to 500 heavy bombers from Italy blasted Budapest, and railroad bridges 20 miles northeast at Szob and ten miles southeast at Szolnok. The Germans threw up flak at the Hungarian capital, but risked no fighter planes. Another flight of Liberators bombed the Fer-rara bridge in north Italy for the sixth time in a fortnight. Lightnings caught a whole fleet of -German planes on improvised and virtually undefended landing fields in western Germany and destroyed 60 on the ground and 15 in the air.

Perhaps the most significant ol trie three-target attack bv nearly 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators from Britain was the attack on the railyards and repair shops at Karlsruhe (pop, 1S9.850) just across the French-German border in the (See AERIAL WAR Pate 4) Heavy fighting was reported in the siege of Brest on the Brittany peninsula, where a diehard garrison still was holding out. It was announced that Third Army prisoners of war had mounted to 7S.000. Enemy wounded were estimated at 64,500 and enemy dead at 19.500. Canadians Near Boulogne Behind the British spearheads operating in Belgium and Holland, Canadians fought their way to within three miles of Boulogne on the rocket of France. Other British forces were closing in on Calais and Dunkerque to wipe out the last (See ALLIED DRIVE Page 4) Driver Unhurt as Auto Drops 15 Ft.

in Spillway Robert Francis Wollaston of 18 South College Avenue, Newark, escaped injury when his automobile crashed into the spillway of Garrison's Millpond south of Smyrna at 3:15 o'clock this morning. Wollaston was driving north on the State Highway when his automobile veered to the left, crossed between the two dual highway bridges and dropped into the spillway about 15 feet below. Damage to the automobile was estimated at $400 and hichwav shrubbery was damaged to the extent of $30. State troopers of Troop near Dover are investigating the accident. Starts First Supreme headquarters had no comment except to deny the rumor.

The Brussels "surrender rumor" spawned a great crop of similar phonies in London, such as these: That the British radio had told listeners to stand by for world-shaking news: that Parliament had been called into session for 6 p. that the king was to broadcast an important announcement any minute; that Germany was having a revolution, and so on. None was true, but the telephones kept ringing. Tense Citieenry Celebrates Hair-trigger celebrants lock quick look at an afternoon headline "German surrender report" and headed for the nearest saloon to hoist one before the beer was all out. Stories under the provocative headline did not make it quite clear that (See PEACE RUMOR Page 4) Two Drownings, Traffic Death Occur in State Over Week-End Rumor of Surrender by Reich One traffic death and two drownings marked the Labor Day weekend in Delaware while fatafcties throughout the nation rose to 245, more than half of them caused by traffic accidents.

The accident death in Delaware was 2-year-old Harvey C. Fulton of Elliott Heights, near Newark. The drownings: James Harris Hopkins. 44, and his brother, C. Oscar.

30. both of Georgetown, drowned at Fowler's Beach near Mu-ton when their fishing boat was swamped by waves Following the death of the Fulton boy on Sunday in The Memorial Hospital. Franidin E. Pope. 28, of near Newark, was held on a charge of ss.sault and battery yesterday by Magistrate John H.

Rurr.er of New-i ark. Father in Army State troopers said the child had I twen playing" on the opposite side of the road from his home, and wa.s i running aeroea the road to join his LONDON, Sept. 5 (JP). A rumor that Germany had capitulated carried by the Brussels radio in the form of a denial caused a flurry in Britain today and provoked an official denial from supreme invasion headquarters that the Reich had capitulated. The Brussels station said the original report was broadcast by a "foreign station," otherwise unidentified.

Flood Of Rumors In London The wispy little rumor, quickly branded by the British Press Association as untrue and "likely to be followed during the next few days and weeks by many similar, and equally inaccurate rumors," set telephones and saloon cash registers ringing in this victory-eager capital. Some enthusiasts were toasting the end of the war; the more cautious mere checking with newspaper ofsees. In Today's Paperj WAR NEWS 4-5-6-7 Amusements IS Answers to Questions i Classified 20-21 Comic 18 Culbertson iti Contract 14 Death Notices 19 Editorials Financial li Obituary Radio 14 Sports IS Society 1 Women's Interests 14.