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The Weather Increasing clondinets ana not quite to cool tonight: rain be- ginning in extreme west portion late tonight; Sunday rain and somewhat cooler and rafter Sunday. VOL. 307 CITY WEATHER fnr tlr J4-fcour prrteil rtdtit? at 8 a Maximum Minimum a. m. 47 27 32 feet Today--Partly cloudy CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Dtrtft Preu Service FIVE CENTS YANKS SEIZE VENAFRO, ITALY; HUNS SURRENDER KIEV TO REDS SOUGHT LIFER Germany Admits Evacuation of Key Dnieper River Bastion Under Encirclement Threat: Nazis Fleeing From Powerful Massico Ridge Victor Andreoli, Who Es- caped Penitentiary 11 Days Ago, Puts Up Gun Battle POLICE SURPRISED HIM AT BREAKFAST Fugitive Had Boasted He Would Never Be Taken Alive; Fired Two Shots Leonard Marcus (above), 15, Chester.

Nov. 6 (ft-- Andreoli, lifetenn convict who escaped from Eastern Penitentiary 11 days was shot to death today in a Bronx. N. waits in battle with Pennsylvania state motor i Wayne, police headquarters police who surprised him at break-i New York City detectives after he: fast in a downtown restaurant. was arrested on a technical charge The 27-year-old fugitive had! of homicide in the strangulation boasted he "would never be taken killing of his step-grandmother.

Mrs. alive. Jennie Flicker. He was apprehended Andreoli, who killed a policeman Jon a Wayne street corner, ending! in a holdup near WIlkes-Barre. eight-state search.

six years ago, was dropped in his TTT-ITS. Bracks bv four bullets from the pis- A A Fl Ml I of three state policemen who A I i A I I closed in on him as'he huddled over: his food at a lunoh counter. Fired Twice; Both Missed He himself fired two shots--and both missed. During his. escape he boasted "the.

cop tlmMays a. hand on mej Churchill Not Attempting To Fix Peace Date London, Nov. 6 (JP)--Prime Minister Winston Churchill declares that "no one can tell at, what moment the resist- ance of the enemy may break" but even so "no one would be so 'foolish as to try to fix some point at which" the war would end. On a visit-yesterday to his old school, Harrow, he recalled that on his last visit in 1940 students had been busy put- ting out enemy incendiary bombs but he pointed out that now "this form of entertain- ment" has collapsed. FIFTH'FORCES CHASING FIVE FOE DIVISIONS Yanks Blast Jap Air Base af Key Point of Vasto On Adriatic -Also Captured by Allies in Steady Advance On Rome i AMERICANS BEAT OFF HUN DEFENSE RIOTOUS JAPS PEACE IN FIELDS OF U.

ilm The three policemen had entered the restaurant by coincidence failed recognize the st first fugitive. A widespread search for himj turned to "Chester yesterday after; one of his former fellow prison in-j mates reported recognizing him on street here. Andreoli fled the penitentiary hiding in the rear of an outgoing truck. ITear Gas Breaks Up Amer- Approves Contract! ica's First Serious In- Rout Fresh New German Division; Large Portion of Nazi Air forces From Albania Knocked Out i By EDWARD KENNEDY Allied Headquarters, Algiers. Nbv.j 16 iiPi--Allied forces in Italy smash- i ied away the last remnants of thei powerful Massico Ridge JTrigno line in talcing the key points! jef Vasio on the Adriatic-and Vena-! fro in the upper TFolturno valley.

Granting Workers Up to Possibly $2 Daily In- crease in Wages ternment Camp Up- rising of War By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS Washington, Nov. 6 iff)--The long id bitter fight over coal wages appeared virtually ended to- day with the War Labor Board's it-r CM conditional anprcval cj the lekes-i Of Slam Army pay scale plan and a nod of Officer To Be from the United Minej Rehoboth Beach. Nov. 6 Workers.

today. Forging ahead In the western sector, British patrols of the Fifth Army crossed the Garigliano river! to probe the new line which enemy has formed north of Americans of the Fifth Army; RUSSIANSSCORE VICTORY AFTER 2-DAY BATTLE a i A a I Which Drove Enemy Out I "A Gallant Outflank- ing Maneuver" STORMED UKRAINE CITY AT DAYBREAK Berlin Announces Soviet Columns Had Re- newed Attacks on Kerch and Perekop Isthmus I London. Nov. 6 tiPt--Kiev hat en to the victorious Russian army, Premier-Marshal Joseph Stalin an- iiKnuiced today io special crcipr the day. i The key Dnieper river bastion anti capita! of the Russians loli Soviet columns which had jpoised above and below the city lor i weeks after the Soviet offensive i-ar- jried to Uie river barrier.

Suddenly, she Russian column? swung into action two day? ruro Low" flying U. S. Army Fifth Air Force planes drop parachute bombs on two-engined planes in revet- Casting 81 Ihroueh t'- T3nV. al Man- T3TMfoiTM HiiT-inrr 19 1-1 in 9m li irfM-o i 3Z PO? 1OI1. 1 ai3 IIUO tfiC airfield, Rabaul, New Britain, during October 12 raid in which 200 Jap aircraft Tule Lake, Nov.

6 'Giuve aircau lutu tuc uiutuitttiiw: -TM 1 7 -f- Tanks, armored cars, machine-guns i after occupj Venafro in a fierce; destroyed. Note ship nosed into bank at left. Parachute bombs prevent self-destruction of attacking bombers fight in the tortuous upper reaches operating at low altitudes. (AP Wirephoto). 'of the Volturno.

Huns Considered Sector Important The Germans attached such im- portance to this mountain fastness! jthat they threw a new division--the 305th infantry--into the fight in a and fixed bayonets ruled the Tule Lake Japanese with a hand today in the wake of America's j', first serious internment camp up-j rising of the war. This huge segregation center forj The pretty. 25-year-old wife and the The WLB's principal reservation States, or suspected of being so came under Ml Army control yes-? last mmute effort to avc 3t but best friend of Warrant Officer John I Involves the Worthington, of Fort Miles. pieceworkers. formula for paying But official union faced questioning today a police spokesmen observed: -'We'll peace- nnd Army investigation of the mys-! fully seek a solution of that, and terious shooting of the 33-year-old I we'll go about the job of producing former Washington.

D. resident! coal." whose body was found beside his! After seven months of controversy service pistol in his luxurious ocean- and four paralyzing strikes which front cottage at Lewes early Thurs-icost the nation more than 40,000,000 day. jtons of coal, this is the picture: Warrant Officer Carl Moulinie, 28,1 UMW President John L. Lewis also stationed at Fort Miles, -was! has a memorandum agreement with held without bail for fuels boss Harold Ickes; under it Deputy Attorney General Daniel J.ithe soft coal miner vho formerly Layton said. Mrs.

Worthington, held received S7 a day. will receive $8.50, in Beeoe Hospital Lewes, under po-jagreeing to dig coal an hour longer. administration build- Ulree sin tne meeting aaministratlon build Tr linn lice guard after the shooting, was partly by halving his 30-minute described by Coroner William I. i lunch period. After his 40th hour Conway as "the only material wit- 1 underground he starts getting paid terday after another outbreak of violence in which 20 rebellious anese and at least one civilian werej injured.

The War Relocation Authority in desperation had asked military aid. 500 Japs Rounded Up Army troops in battle dress moved en masse into the camp with fixed bayonets and rounded up 500 Jap- anese, who were questioned while holding their hands clasped over leven these fresh Nazi fighters from I the north -were routed by thej their heads. Americans. In the air war. American medium (bombers knocked out a large portion of the German air forces operating from Albania with a heavy raid! yesterday on Berat Kucov airfield! in the center of the tiny The field was one of the bases from which the Germans were operating! against Patriot forces in the! Balkans.

Vatican City Bombed, German Sources Say JAP IARSHIPS Hi in ALLIED AERIAL Factory and Gov- ernor's Palace There now are five German divisions in battle on the Fifth The Japanese, who on Mommy, an(J held an impromptu three-hour massif oppQsing Army In addition to a five-mile surge ARE MOVING OK RABAUL ISLAND i REPORT DRAWS NO COMMENT IN LONDON! BLOWS AGAINST 5 REICHKEPTUP 1 in aaaiuon io a iive-mne -1-1 mg while keeping government! in Three Con-jAlheS Had Warned in JulviBntlsh MosquitOS Tinennprs: ness." Shot After Night Club Visit for travel time at time and a half. In Layton said Worthington died I about $11.50. so that the average soon after he and his wife and Aloulinie returned from an evening of dancing in a night club. Mrs. Worthington and Moulinie were at ihe cottage when police arrived in response to Mrs.

Worthington's tele- phone call that "my husband has jnst shot himself." Apparently recovered from shock, Mrs. Worthington was taken from the hospital yesterday to the Echo- both Beach jail. She was not seen to leave the jail, but authorities re- fused to say whether she was be- ing held. There was no against her. daily increase is closer to $2 than S1.50.

His total week's earnings will be close to S57. Some may earn more and the average worker would exceed $60. Hard Coal Pact Approved Provisions covering anthracite miners were full approved. They grant 70 cents a day Only a few anti-ciimatic Chapters of the 1943 coal drama appeared to remain: (1) The meeting of con- ditions with the WLB attached to its approval of the Icfces-Lewis agreement; (2; determination of (Continued on Page 3, Col. 2) voys New Stakes in Raging Solomons Deci- sion; Allies in Range of a mile and a half in the region i his IncreasTis" ldvieref atroUed the Camp light jsome XmlFinland im nnsir.mrLS with eims tanks took up positions with guns pointing toward the living area.

The only show of organized dis-i Resist Fiercely At Vasto The Germans, who in recent days Possibilty of Bombing Intentionally by Axis Powers Up i Given Gel- Germans from The German high commune had announced a few hours previously that the great fortress had bm; evacuated, with German trocw out unrftr the threat of en- circlemcr.i. Tlv a announcement, broadcast from Berlin, said also that other Soviet columns hs5 re- newed their attacks both Fsdrt of the Kerch straits in the eastern Crimea, and against the isthmus, the northern entry to ihr.t peninsula. Gallant Outflanpinp Maneuver Stalin's announcement termed ihe assault which drove the Nasib from the ancient fortress "a cr.Ilaix put- flanking maneuver" which day- break "captured by storm the cap- ital of the Soviet Ukraine, Hie town Kiev, vital industrial center am; most important strategic center o- German resistance on. the richt I flank of the i It termed the capture r.f cst Importance in drivinc tho tho r- obedience was broken up by tearj using tanks in the; Southwest Pacific Allied Kead- rcsisted; quarters. Nov.

6 Muen- StCr DV Americans 324 rannor io boom oui British salvos in Moscow this rvnitnc greatest victory saluto of the Inaic.Ttmg ihe siKTiificancp Slann attached to the Kiev victory, he Lorion. Nov. 6 German Mosquito bombers soldiers effectively used tear gas to disperse them. Trouble Spot Since Inception The Tule Lake camp, in the iso- far-northern icara--the back door to Rome. In striking to Vasto.

the Eighth to within range of massed hundreds Press had no confirmation that any are moving on Rabaul from TrukjCity in Borne" but the Associated announced today. The objectives attacked in when he singicd on; II i a the'try divisions, nine air four night assault were not immediately and artillery an swept through San Salvo where American bombers. Isuch attack had occurred. iGermans had held out more than! Already the first bombs have hitj. "Bomb hiw caused destruction in named nor was thcrc aljy hin i anti-aircraft division, three week, and on the basis of reports one of the five southbound world-famous Mosaic size tnc raidinR corp5 Enri numoroa battalions the front this morning what shapes up as likely to be, as we ll as damage to the governor's; Ycsterdav, a huse fleet of Anicrl- jbrieadcs for sppcial honors in rr- (Continued on Page 2.

Col. 4) (Continued on Page t. Cot. Nazi Losses Cannot Be Men Say By WILLIAM FRYE The Nazis put on an intensive Washington, Nov. 6 manpower drive last winter and spring, when the 17-year-olds were drafted and men up to 50 were assigned to combat units.

The objective was 2,000,000 men. The result, probably about 1,500,000. To many's manpower is so exhausted that she likely will find it impossible to replace the army's staggering losses of the Russian campaign, U. S. Army men now believe.

Even If the Russian announce- tion. For a year and a half there has been smouldering revolt here, with strikes, riots, beatings and van- dalism, and finally an outright bid for control last Monday. Thc troubles came to a head with i the arrival of thousands of Japanese transferred here from Hawaii a few weeks ago. A strong anti-American leadership fostered by these new arrivals took form and showed open- ly Monday when a Rev. Kai from Hawaii told thousands assembled at i of draftees originally rejected be-! Draftees With Heart Ills Are Becoming Acceptable tary service.

Dr. Kerr said, not necessarily by the lowering of phy- Isical standards but rather because San Franco, Nov. fr-Thousarms ft- nA I in AS I By RENNIE TAYLOR Associated Press Science Writer palace," said thc German communi-1 can neav bombers estimated at for their pan jr. the bsnio. que as broadcast from Berlin.

I (Continued on Page i. Col S) 1 (Continued on Page i. Cor. 7 It was recalled here the Allies i leaflets dropped on Rome had warn- ed the world last July of the sibility of bombs being dropped on i Vatican City intentionally by thej Axis powers who, it was said, were! likely then to go to the radio and! declare Allied aircraft had made thc the administration building they showed symptoms of! be either non-exiMcnl or trivial. "you must give your all for Japan." heart or-circulatory disease are be-i i Some rejectees simply outgrew With that, two-thirds of the crowd bared their heads and bowed.

One impelling reason given for jthe disturbances was the desire of ment that Nazi casualties in the get them, the Reich relaxed physical soine of the apRnese to crcate an last four months amounted to jstandards, virtually ended all em- 000 is taken at considerably lessiployment in service trades, closed than 'face value, informed persons here said today, the German losses have been enormous, and to nil practical purposes irreplaceable. A month ago, military circles fig- ured Germany had 300 to 310 down thousands of retail shops, and even took men out of essential in- dustry, replacing the latter with forced labor from occupied nations. This drastic effort Is believed to been the last straw for Ger- divisions were assumed to be below and made up of inferior Personnel. divisions. However, many of these manpower possibilities ex- cept for the increment of pcrrmpe 500,000 youths who will become 17 jthis incident which would bring their quick deportation to their homeland.

SLEEPING GIRL SLUGGED Baltimore, Nov. 6 Doris J. Gerber, 23, told police today she was hit on Uie head with a vase by an intruder as she dozed on a couch at her home. Her parents found her lying on coming acceptable for military ser- vice. Men with certain kinds of heart murmurs, nervous hypertension and rapid heartbeat now are being pass- ed by medicai boards.

Dr. William J. Kerr, University of California heart specialist, reported to a group of colleagues here yesterday. On a country-wide basis, there probably are enough men of this kind to swell thc Army by at least two divisions, Col. Bert Thomas, of the California selective service sys- thc floor.

She said she was unable tcm, said. their trouble, he added. Under the auspices of the Na- tional Research Council, Dr. Kerr and nine other physicians re- examined 983 heart rejectees in the San Francisco area and found that 275 of them, or 28 percent, could be salvaged for military duty. Similar committees in Boston.

York, Philadelphia and Chi- cago each worked on grounds of about 1,000 heart rejectees and re- ported salvages of 5 to 25 percent. Dr. KCIT said. He added that the committees had not been permitted to report publicly their findings un- to identify her mwUlant, men were salvaged for recently Given $110,000 by Wife, He Tells Court attack. The German Transoceanj News Agency said in a broadcast! recorded by Reuters from Beriin that thc attacking cra't were Al- lied.

Another broadcast by German-controlled Rome radio, re- corded by thc ministry of informa- tion, made no mention of thc na- tionality of the planes. The German report of the bomb- in drew a "no comment 1 from of- ficial quarters in London. But it was pointed out here that such an attack would be pointless from an Allied viewpoint and that in the American raid on Rome on July 19 the pilots were given elab- orate training and Instructions no as to avoid hitting Vatican City and other religions landmarks. (Continued on Put Col. jj Ey E.

V. W. Jones Nassau, Bahamas, Nov. 6 Marigny. from whom fw wa -Al-1 divorced before he married Nnnry.

fred DC Marifrny. accused slayer Immaculate in a white linen suit, the multi-millionaire Sir Harry Murigny ftooci nonchalantly or, Oakes, reported in Bahamas witness stand while the prcme Court today that he received went over his hand-written account about $110.000 from a former wife'of yrsterdny's. by "to use as I pleased." Attorney General Eric Hallinan. The tall defendant, thc husband; "Did you f-rcoivc from of Sir Harry's daughter Nancy, made; Ruth?" asked the Clue! Justicp the statement from the witness when hr reached thc record of stand when he returned to listen jmony about Of Marfgny's financial to the reading of his testimony dealings with his former wife, denying that he beat and burned i Oakcs to death last July. Sir Oscar Bedford Daly, the chipf "I did receive thc money," raid Tip "to wv I pleased." courtroom was only pnrtly justice, and all others in thr court-j filled today, despite a grneral room understood DC MariRny i-u say: thnt some bold defeat stroke was in yesterday that he did not get the making.

pounds (about S110.000) from second wile, Ruth Fahnestock The Chirf Justice asked in (Continued on Page Col..

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