The Monitor from McAllen, Texas • 1

LEST WE FORGET: FOUR 460 TODAYbetween sinter for fint peacetime draft history of United States, British bombers hit Kiel for where Germans been storing fuel snide WE ARE AT WAR EN SERVING THE RICHEST COUNTY IN AMERICA THIRTY- YEAR- -No. 92 MCALLEN, TEXAS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1944 Se A COPY B-29s Smash Formosa Yanks Seal Aachen Trap Amid Gains in Holland MAD FIGHTING RAGES INSIDE GERMAN CITY LONDON (AP) The last thin lifeline of the Nazi garrison of Aachen was cut in the Battle of the Siegfried (Line today by American forces which battled to a junction from positions north and northeast of the city. The junction was made at Wurselen, three miles north of The city, by the U. S. First Army which crushed five frantic counterattacks in, three days and knocked out to 60 of the enemy's tanks.

Wurselen was mopped up in the process. With the city completely lockWed by encircling forces, the Germans were reduced to supplying the garrison by parachute. Advances Elsewhere Allied forces sent. patrols across the Neder Rhine in Holland, clamped a two-edgred hold on the sea approaches to Antwerp in Belgium and captured in a broad advance in the Vosges dozen towns, A villages and forts which took French tro IS to within 32 miles of the Rhine. But along the Moselle the bitter battle inside Fort Driant ended unsuccessfully after 10 days of close-quarter combat.

American forces withdrew there before dawn Friday, it was announced today. At Aachen American troops smashing down above the city joined forces with others up from the south and completely sealed in the city by the juncture, Screaming Nazis 4 The union was made east of Aachen despite three frantic German counterattacks in 24 hours, one of them from inside the city, in which Nazis screaming "Heil Hitler" rushed Ameri-can lines with savage fury. The Americans threw German charge off Crucifix ridge, northeast of Aachen, and in cold and bloody fighting turned back the counterattack inside city. knocked Thirty out enemy Sunday tanks and had today been by artillery and planes at Aachen, a staff officer estimated. British patrols crossing the Neder.

Rhine. on probing, expediwhere British parachutists failed three weeks ago to hold the bridgehead menacing Adolf Hitler's comparativedefenseless northern frontier, were a tentative threat to Nazis Lighting fanatically in the westvern Netherlands. Canadians in Battle Canadians were waging a crucial battle for the opening Antwerp: as a supply port before winter's gales, and the drive in The Vosges, on the south of the (See GERMANY, Page 2) Reynosa Honors Group from Valley REYNOSA-Pretty senoritas of Reynosa pinned multi-colored ribbons reading "Camara de Comercio, Reynosa por-Calles" on Texas and Mexican guests of 1o- cal business men at a. barbecue here Sunday afternoon. The guests donated whatever amounts they wished to help construct the new road from Reynosa to San Fernando.

About 200 persons attended the barbecue and listened to Spanish and English oratory in an impromptu program in charge of digr. Roy Rendon of the Reynosa chamber. Rendon was sented to the Texas, visitors by Mgr. Harry Cook Edinburg chamber. The main address was by Gen.

Miguel Flores Villar, who What de plea charged for an ending of jade isolated cases of was racial continued discrimination. Other speakers included R. B. McLeaish. executive secretary of Valley Board, MayB.

C. Harris and City Comm. P. Kelley of Edinburg, Lee Hinidle of Donna, Carl Blasig of Mercedes, Merle Kelly of Pharr, Moulton (Ty) Cobb of KRGV, Weslaco, Mayor Hugh Ramsey Harlingen Judge Charles E. Johnson of Raymondville, Joe Pate Hidalgo, Mayor Horace Sam Etchison, Jose B.

Martinez, L. Miller and Paul T. Vickers of McAllen, Joseph C. Montsomery was interpreter. THE WEATHER minimum: VALLEY FORECAST: and Tuesday cool tonight and GRANDE: The river throughout the district 86 hours.

temperature, Maximum Inst same period: Warm this after: afternoon, clear and Tuesday might, BIO will continue to fall during the 81 EIGHT PAGES Again VALLEY FRUIT CROP BIGGEST IN HISTORY WESLACO- largest citrus crop on record in the Valley is moving out to the breakfast tables of the nation in ever- daily shipments in a new season that opened, about three days ahead of last year. Shipments through Sunday reached a total of 348 cars, the U. S. Market News Service reported today, the opening day its annual news reports to shippers. The service will last througt.

the spring tomato deal. Grapefruit Heavy Grapefruit shipments are far in advance of all others with 275 cars. total of 23 orange cars have been shipped and 50 cars of mixed citrus, market news officials, said. Shipments Saturday included 114 cars of grape. fruit, 9 oranges, and 26 mixed citrus.

Sunday shipments were 10 grapefruit, and one mixed citrus. Through the same date last year 32 cars had been moved. The shipping season opened last year on Oct. 14. This year's started Oct.

10. According to a U. S. Department of Agriculture special citrus report today, prospective production of grapefruit in Texas for the current season is indicated to be: 20,150,000 boxes, or an increase of 14 per cent over the 17,710.000 boxes harvested last year and 15 per cent above the 17,510,000 boxes produced in 1942-43 season. The United States grapefruit sources of supply of orange supplies from Oct.

1 to May expected to be about one per cent less than in 1943-1944. A decrease in California navels and miscellaneous oranges of approximately 2.300,000 boxes is partly offset by an increase of 1.200.000 boxes in the prospects for Florida early and mid-season oranges. Early indications for Florida Valencias, which begin harvest in March, point to a crop of 25 million boxes compared to 20,400,000 last season, crop for the present season. exclusive of the California summer crop for harvest next year, is indicated to be 61,166,000 boxres- -an increase or about 7,000, boxes over last year's record of 54,029,000. Florida expects 36 million boxes compared with 31 million harvested in 1943-1944 while Arizona expects a reduction of 380,000 boxes or a crop of 3,700,000 boxes compared with 4,080.000 last year.

The shipment of Florida grapefruit started a month earlier than last year and heavy shipments were expected for October. Orange Increase According to the estimate, production of is placed at 3,750,000 boxes. This is an increase of six per cent over the 3,550,000 boxes produced last season. Maturity of fruit was somewhat de aged by the hot. and dry spell of July and August but conditions the latter part of August were very favorable.

Late variety Valencia oranges were particularly benefited by the recent improved conditions and early season varieties are now expected to be available at about the usual time. Total U. S. production of early and mid-season oranges for the 1944-1945 season (the principal THE ROAD TO BERLIN By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1-Western front: 302 miles (from west of Duren), 2-Russian front: 310 miles (from Warsaw), 3-Italian front: 560 miles (from Yanks Give Up Fort Driant Battle, Leave Nazis in Their Tunnelled Maze OUTSIDE FORT DRIANT, France -(P) American troops have withdrawn from their small footholds inside Fort Driant five miles southwest of Metz after blowing up enemy installations. The withdrawal climaxed 10 days of close-quarter fighting in which Lt.

Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army Doughboys penetrated only 100 yards into one of the underground passages of the bristling fortress, honeycombed by a myriad of tunnels. They cut down steel doors with acetylene torches and fought from entrance to trance. But they were handicapped in efforts to advance in upper portions of the fort by mushroom pillboxes which were raised hydraulically -to 50 STATUTE MILES Shi Taichu Rolke PESCADORES TAINAN Pacilic Taito Takaof SHO Toke South China Sea PRIME PACIFIC TARGET Japanese installations on Formosa, shown above, and the nearby Pescadores Islands have been attacked twice by U.

S. carrier task forces and today underwent their second pummeling from American sky giants, the B-29 Superfortresses. Heavy damage has been dealt the island, according to Pacific Fleet announcements: Red Troops Near Norwegian Border LONDON-(P)-The German sea escape route from northern Finland has been cut with the capture of the Arctic port of Petsamo and advancing Red Army tanks were reported today to have won an important. road junction close to the Norwegian border, Pravda of Moscow described newly won highway center as the "key to Norway," without naming it further and said it had been captured after Russian forces beat off a counterattack by a German armored column retreating toward Norway, Also, Pravda said the land and sea assault on Petsamo, capture of which was announced officially by Moscow Sunday night, routed two choice enemy Alpine divisions in a three hour battle, Moscow did not report on progress of the Red Army in Hungary, where Hungarian Nazis were reported to have imposed a rule of terror following an armistice petition by Regent Nicholas Horthy. The battle for Belgrade was not mentioned in the official Soviet communique, but Berlin acknowledged that Russian troops and tanks and Marshal Tito's Partisans had fought their way into the city after reaching the outskirts Saturday.

Into East Prussia Berlin implied also that other Soviet troops had crossed into German East Prussia on a 27- mile front in the Memel territory. Moscow announced Red Army troops had advanced three miles west of the fallen Latvian capital, Riga, as they steadily herdNazis into the narrow trap sprung when the Soviet First Baltic Army reached the Lithuanian coast north of Memel. Other Moscow dispatches described the tank battle on the Hungarian plains as one of the heaviest of the war and Soviet communique announced that 143 German tanks had been knocked out Saturday, This made a nine-day 1,294 German tanks destroyed on the basis of Moscow bulletins. Hungary the last large Nazi vassal nation- was reported engulfed. in -inspired reign of terror as Nazis made frenzied efforts to counteract an armistice request by the government of Admiral Horthy and prevent another political and military debacle for Germany, Eliminate Traitors Pro-German elements, presumably aided by German SS divisions, rushed to Budapest from Vienna and apparently seized control of the immediately after the petition for armistice was broadcast early Sunday evening in an order of the day signed by Regent Horthy, Within a few hours another broadcast from Budapest announced that the Hungarian Nazi party headed by Ferec Szalasi had "taken matters in hand to eliminate traitors at.

all costs" and promised that "the most ruthless measures," including the death penalty, would be imposed on those disobeying orders. The Ankara radio said the gestapo was making mass arrests and report broadcast by the radio at Lille, France, said Horthy had been seized by the gestapo and taken to Germany. De Gaulle, Giraud Confer PARIS (P). Gen Henri Giraud and Gen. Charles De Gaulle confered Saturday for the first time since the former French commander-in-chief returned to France and there was speculation today that Giraud might resume an active military or governmental role.

TOKYO CLAIMS NIPPON FLEET IS IN ACTION Make Roaches Sleep in Park, Couple Advised McALLEN This dilemma faced a man and his wife Monday: Sleep in a cockroach-infested apartment or a park. Chamber of commerce officials told the couple they had better take the cockroaches, as winter had started early, and there wasn't an apartment in McAllen even big enough for a cockroach, much less man and his wife and an insect to boot, (They were also given a sure-fire cockroach recipe.) Monday at high noon no apartments houses, no places with kitchen privileges, and six bedrooms was the score at the chamber's housing department. MEXICAN BORDER GETS NEW ROAD INTO INTERIOR REYNOSA- Preliminary Construction has been started on an important new border-to-interior highway link, one of many in this section of the country in the past few years. The new highway when completed will connect the thriving border city of Reynosa with San Fernando, located on the Matamoros- Victoria highway, and with Victoria, capital of the state of Tamaulipas. 110-Mile Route The road will extend about.

110 miles to the link with the main highway, chamber of -commerce officials said today in announce ing that first stages of construetion were under way. liminary work is being paid for by Reynosa chamber of commerce members with a donation from the McAllen Chamber of merce and other border interests. Reynosa officials said they had enough money now to pay to dig the roadbed and that they anticipated state-federal aid would assist the project for eventual completion. The road is estimated to cost about 2,000,000 pesos- approximately $400.000 paving and roadbed to link with the Matamoros- Victoria road. The highway is the first to link this part of the border with the state capital, and will provide direct route for passengers.

In the past the trip to Victoria was a long one, forcing travelers to go first to Monterrey and then across the republic to the state capital. South of Garrison The road leads out of Reynosa at the south end of the city, linking with the Matamoros highway about three miles south of the military garrison. Plans for the road were in the discussion stage in August when McAllen Chamber Mgr. Paul T. Vickers, Joe E.

Pate of the Valley Bridge and Mayor Rodrigo Gonzales of Reynosa went to Victoria to confer with Gov. Magdaleno Aguilar on the- proposal. Attending the conference were the state highway engineer and the state paymaster, All agreed the highway should be started, maintaining that it was the psychology of the Mexican people that once a road was started it would eventually be finished. Valley Sergeant Wins Bronze Star WITH THE XIV ARMY CORPS In the Southwest Pacific- -St. Sgt.

Rudolfo Garza. infantry, U. S. Army, brother of Miss Celia Garza of Los Saenz, has been awarded the Bronze Star medal Gen. 0.

W. Griswold. commanding general of the 14th Army Corps. The award for "meritorious service against the enemy in combat area in Southwest Pacific July 12, 1943 to Sept. 21 of this year." Esterly and her 20th child, twoday-old Timothy, were reported doing well at Sacred Heart hospital today.

"I've done my share," the 43-year-old mother, said after Timothy's birth. is my. last." Woman Has 20th Child ALLENTOWN, Pa. (P) Mrs. GRAND JURORS TO DECIDE ON VOTING PROBE EDINBURG A decision on whether Hidalgo County's new grand jury, which convened here this morning, will conduct an investigation of irregularities in last July's Democratic imary election was left up to jurors by Criminal Dist.

Judge Bryce Ferguson. With only two weeks remaining in the September term of court, the panel must complete the cases brought before it by Oct, 28. May Hold Over In the event the jurors judge the time left them is insufficient to investigate the irregularities, Judge Ferguson indicated that he will hold the matter for consideration by the next grand jury, which he said he hopes to call together early enough in the session to allot almost six weeks to the Laying the testimony matter if before necessary. the new jury members, the judge emphasized that several days will be dequired to produce witnesses to testify in the election matters. The evidence brought out during his civil court inquiry into the sheriff's primary balloting some weeks ago was not pursued to the extent where any person could be indicted, he said.

In a thorough investigation the fact that crimes against existing election laws had been committed would have to be reasonably established and specific persons named as allegedly guilty of the crimes, the judge said. Confer with Hartley After the jurors were sworn in, they were instructed in their duties by the judge. Possibilities of the lection probe by the present jury will be discussed with Dist. Atty. Tom Hartley by members after completion of 19 criminal cases prepared by the district attorney's office.

Besides Carl J. Klinger, Pharr, who was appointed foreman, grand jury members include Burl Stugard, San Juan; Earl S. Murrey, Donna; J. A. Medley, Weslaco; Ed G.

Vela, Hidalgo; Carl Johnston, Hargill; J. C. Powell, Edinburg, Isydore Moczgemba; McCook; R. E. Williams, Alamo; R.

O. Wade, La Villa; Carl; A. Roettele, Elsa Crisoforo Hinojosa, Edinburg, Excused for sickness were Floyd Langford, Mercedes and Ira Peace, Mission. Business reasons kept Bemis Daskman from serving and death claimed D. F.

Baltis, the sixteenth prospective juror, New Records Set By Tax Payments McALLEN- Booming tax collections in the city and school district are pouring recording returns for the second consecutive year into the treasuries of the two taxing bodies. Through last Friday the city had already collected approximately 34 per cent of its 1944 levy while the school district had better than 20 per cent in the till. Officials of both districts said new receipts have broken all existing records for early tax collections. The city, has taken in 14 on 1944 levy of 12, City Tax Assessor -Collector J. R.

Glasscock said today, The collections represent approximately 34 per cent of the levy. They compare with collections to the same date last year when 826.30 had been taken in through Oct. 13 on a levy of $143,684, Glasscock reported. School district receipts so far this year have reached 16 on a $105,013.81 levy, said Clerk M. E.

Stone. Of these 015.73 was received in the first 13 days of October and 43 during September. All taxes paid during October carry a 3 per cent discount. The November discount is 2 per cent and December 1 per cent. The discount is the same for the city, school, and county-state collection agencies.

Advertising Pays ADEL, (P) Warden Charlie Dean of the Cook county farm advertised 25 feeder pigs for sale. The following night entire lot was stolen. BY LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor A second Superfortress attack within 48 hours against prime military targets on Formosa Island was reported by the U. S. 20th Air Force today as Radio Tokyo was claiming Japanese naval and air units were in battle with an American carrier force in that sector, The 20th Air communique said a large force of hit Okayama, major plane repair and air supply base, and Heito, 17 miles northward.

Both points are in Formosa's southwestern. coastal area. Heito has field and an air supply depot. No Planes Lost No. Superfortresses were lost during the second attack, the an- LATEST- -This protographic study of Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of Allied forces on the Western Front, is the latest formal picture of the American general, GERMANS QUITTING GREECE; WARSHIPS LAND AT PIRAEUS LONDON -(A) Berlin radio indicated today that the Germans had decided to evacuate Greece, The broadcast by the Transocean agency said: of the German eva-000 cuation of Greece the Balkan front will assume a different aspect, said a German military spokesman this afternoon. Ev. ents there are still very fluid. The decision in this sector will fall later." ROME-(P)- A strong British naval force has arrived at Piraeus, the port of Athens, and will begin disembarking troops today, Allied headquarters announced.

The fleet, headed by the 000-ton cruiser Orion flying the flag of Rear Adm. J. M. Mansfield, anchored in the roadstead Sunday evening after being delayed by enemy mine fields, the bulletin said. Liberation of Athens and nearby Piraeus was announced Saturday night, but there still were no details on this operation.

Field dispatches, meanwhile, reported that the comparatively few Nazis remaining in Greece and were heading for Yugoslavia in an effort to escape the trap which advancing Russian forces are cloisng in the north. Carol, Lupescu In New Orleans NEW ORLEANS (P) The New Orleans States said today. that former King Carol, who has expressed hopes of regaining his throne in Romania now that nation has been liberated from the Nazis, was in New Orleans today, accompanied by Madame Elena Lupescu. Carol and Madame Lupescu fled Romania during the Nazi occupation and have been in Mexico. 270,000 Prisoners -Allied armies on the western front have captured at least 570,185 prisoners since Day, with 400,185 of them caged by four American armies in the field.

Severe Hurricane Threat to Mexico MIAMI, severe hurricane in the Caribbean sea offered a "serious threat" today, the weather bureau reported, to western Cuba, the Yucatan channel area, and the peninsula Mexico. Storm warnings were hoisted at 10 a.m. on the Florida, keys, and the weather bureau warned that strong northeast and east winds and squalls would sweep southern Florida. Gales were forecast off the south Florida coasts. The advisory said the hurricane was centered at 10 a.m.

about 90 miles west- -southwest of Grand Cayman, a Caribbean island south Cuba. "It was moving west-northwestward six to nine miles an hour. "It is attended by winds of full hurricane force over a considerable area," the advisory added, "and gales and squalls over a very large area, with winds of 100 miles per hour near center, Regulars, GOP Fail In Fusion Effort HOUSTON- With rejections by both Texas Regular and Republican. leaders of specific looking to a coalition proposals and counter proposals, a conference the Rice hotel Roosevelt forces, in Texas, during Sunday, the possibility of any effective such coalition appeared dimmer than ever today, Two proposals made by Republican leaders and rejected by the Regulars, who countered with two proposals of their own, both rejected by the Republicans, it was learned after the meeting. Attending the conference was R.

B. Creager of Brownsville, Republican national committeeman for Texas, Lee Under Halsey In Formosa Raids U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADVice Adm. W.

A. Lee one of QUARTERS. Pearl Harbor the naval heroes of Guadalcanal, is. second in command under Adm. William F.

Halsey of U. S. Third Fleet units operating off Formosa. Mexico Rancher Dead LAREDO (P) -Emeterio Flores, 69, ranchman in Mexico and former member of the Webb County, commissioners court, died at his home in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, today, nouncement said. good bombing results" under good weather conditions were reported crewmen.

In the first B-29 Formosa raid Saturday bombing results were excellent' with 37 Okayama buildings totally destroyed and 16 heavily damaged. Two of the Superfortresses previously, ported missing on this raid are safe, the communique said, while a third crash-landed at a forward base. One was lost. Japanese broadcasts reported the Japanese fleet had at last come out of hiding and was "in pursuit of the fleeing enemy task force." Imperial communiques asserted that 16 American warships, including ten carriers, were sunk, and another 19 damaged. a queted Jubilant Japanese, broadcasts, Kuniaki Koiso as saying "The long a- waited opportunity for Japan's battle in the Pacific has just come." Nipponese "naval observers" were reported to have said avowed offensive against a Philippines has been dealt a sledgehammer 63 Jap Ships Sunk The Japanese fleet, long sought by American commanders in the Pacific, has not been mentioned in Adm.

Chester W. Nimitz' reports on the Formosa action. His reports, still incomplete, listed 487 Japanese planes as destroyed. 63 enemy ships sunk or damaged, against a lose of 45 U. S.

planes. Tokyo said a dive ionary unit of the great American carrier task force was intercepted by planes after 60 U. S. bombers and fighters raided Manila Saturday (U. S.

time), The Japanese claimed a carrier was sunk and four other warships damaged. Nimitz reported the Japanese began pressing "strong carrier counter- forces attacks" against off Formosa Thursday night, Twenty Nipponese were shot down. Nevertheless, carrier planes returned to the attack on Formosa and Luzon Island in the northern Philippines Friday, They encountered "little air opposition" and wiped out 41 enemy planes. Battle Continuing Friday afternoon 30 more Japanese planes were shot down as they attacked the U. S.

sea force, Nimitz said, and "It is known that many additional enemy aircraft have been shot down. Our plane losses so far have been light. This fight is continuing." Fifty Allied bombers and fighters raided Canton, Tokyo reported today, virtually completing the aerial encirclement of the invasion-threatened Philippines. Canton raiders come Air Force persistent forays from the China- 14th U. S.

have forced the powerful Japanese armies in Southeast China to move only at night or under camouflage, Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell paid a flying visit Sunday to Liuchow, last advanced American air base in the area, to see whether a further readjustment in S. air dispositions was necessary, Land-based planes operating over the attacked 26 small Japanese vessels. Six were sunk or damaged southern Philippines and Makassar Strait.

Three were attacked at Iwo, 750 miles, targets south in of a half Tokyo. dozen and raids 17 on the Kuriles north of Japan. East of Philippines A Japanese communique, recorded by the Federal Communications Commission, reported Japanese planes intercepted fierce and out repeated: tacks in waters east of the Philippines" on American carrier forces sent to attack Manila in a diversionary attempt to "rescue the enemy task force now fleeing in defeat" from Formosa, The communique claimed one aircraft carrier was sunk and three damaged; a battleship or cruiser sunk or damaged, and 30 fire upon the soldiers who had passed them. The fort, one of the main bastions guarding Metz, was pounded heavily from the air and by Third Army artillery with only slight effect. The withdrawal was completed at 2 a.m.

Friday. At no time was there more than a battalion of American soldiers involved in this action, designed as a test to determine whether the Metz ring of fortifications should be subject to frontal assault or. bypassed. A spokesman said the fort "might have been taken by frontal assault" through use of much heavier forces but that resultant losses would not have been justified." were numerically light" the attacking force, he said. (See PACIFIC, Page 2).