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CroBJword My Dy Editorial VOL. 61, NO. 89 COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ASSOCIATED PRESS FEATURES, UNITED PRESS AND INTERNATIONAL NtWS SERVICES ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 21, 1944 ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEMATS ACME TELEPHOTOS EIGHTEEN PAGES FIVE CENTS SHELL-RAZED AACHEN FALLS 10 AMERICANS y. lesporasible for 0 OuOPPODT) Page Faze 15 Financial 17 4-5 Public Opinion H-16 Local News 9-11 17 Merry-Go-R'nd.

6 13 Meeting-. 8 14 L. Melittt 6 13 National News 3 6 Obituaries 2 Pape Politic 7 Radio 13 Society Sports 33 State New 37 Theatres 9 Weather 3 Winchell 13 Tour Garden Dewey GOP All Loimdl dud Pih U. oiois in AACHEN, Germany (TP) The German border city of Aachen, reduced to wreckage jap resistance by American shells and NOMNEE SAYS bombing planes and torn by days of savage street fight ing, fell yesterday to Ameri iffeeis After can troops who drove the last of its desperately resisting Nazi garrison from their bur NEW DEAL DID 'SOME GOOD' By GARDNER BRIDGE (First rows in the city proper. eivasBon Last night the victorious Yanks began mopping up the remnants of Nazis hopelessly trapped in pockets on the outskirts of this (See our editorial on page 6) GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philip mass of wreckage.

There were es timated to be between 500 and pines (P) capture ot a prized air Held on L-eyte in the ,000 Germans trapped in the vise PITTSBURGH (ff) Loosing a new barrage at what he calls "one-man government," Thomas E. Dewey central Philippines was reported today from the invasion in addition to approximately 2,000 scene where an American army of 250,000 men poured ashore from 600 ships, along with tanks and supplies in a already captured. KNOCK OVER BUILDING last night declared that Presi Troops under the command of gigantic synchronized operation of land, sea and air. dent Roosevelt is trying to v'j i i I vVV-i 1 8 1 i I 1 f.AjfsM(. 4 V1? ft A ilr, 5' 06 jiiujjujiJ.MJUiaiiiii--LiiiiLM i 1 1 nfftliuMwisail fitirtnir-iTrfiawiiarHirrTrT'-fl Thev came to grips on Leyte i Lt.

Coy. Merrill Daniel of Geneva, N. knocked out the last major German strongpoint in the city with Japanese of the 16th divi make political capital out of social gains which he said sion which Gen. Douglas Mac- battle roll forward to bring you within the zone of operation, rise and strike." at 3:30 p. (10:30 a.

EWT) Arthur told correspondents he were initiated by Republioan was eager to get at because In announcing the reinvasion, was "the outfit that did the administrations. The New York governor prom dirty work at Bataan." with direct fire from a 155 mm. rifle blasting at close range. The big gun literally knocked down a building in which S. S.

elite guard troops had made a last desperate stand. MacArthur said the operation caught the enemy by surprise and beachheads were secured "with small casualties." XVAmoy A3jf CUNTO- V' I Poo'ic Luton Slroit Ocean MJ LUZON l.nflay.nfef PHILIPPINES Clark field JC 6ATAANjr-A CORREGIDORy3JV m'inDORO Seo Bahangao 1 Ite, tlauo BORNEO 'It' tf.fm StTUTt Milts' HAtMAMtfiAijf v- ised to expand and broaden these (Mutual's radio reporter, Gor gains if elected. don Walker, said in a broadcast that Tacloban air field on the After declaring that Demo (The Tokio radio was heard by. A Yank private sitting in a win northeast end of Leyte had fallen to the Yanks. crat! resent "the kidnaping of the federal communications commission to say that a "full scale dow several yards in front of the gun was blown from his perch onslaught" against MacArthur's their party by the Communists and the political action committee," the Republican presidential nominee said in a prepared forces was about to be launched.

The broadcast was beamed to the United States.) by the muzzle blast and KnocKea all the way across the room. With the strongpoint reduced to smoke and rubble the doughboys swiftly advanced through the remainder of the ruined city and squeezed the Nazis into a final pocket. Speaking over the radio "Voice of Freedom," as reported by the office of war information, Mac- Murlin Spencer, Associated Press war correspondent with the invaders, said the mammoth convoy, exceeding that which took the Allies to landings in North Africa, carried as many men as perhaps more than were put ashore on French Normandy on D-Day. Prime Minister Churchill has disclosed that nearly 250,000 men were landed in Normandy on the first day. broadcast.

"It is time to face the fact that the New Deal is a bankrupt organization, living only to extend its powers over the daily lives of our people." Arthur informed the Filipinos that their president, Sergio Osmena, and members of his cabinet were at his side. He conceded the New Deal "did some things in its youth," but de "Aachen is ours," said an American officer, matter-of-factly announcing the capture of the first large German city by Allied invasion armies. "When we knocked out that building we knocked out the guts of their defense." Lt. Gen. Courtney H.

Hodges' clared that "now it seeks to live Although casualties since the on its past." "In this great national cam YANK BOMBS BLAST FORMOSA This official U. S. navy photo shows bombs from carrier-based planes exploding among large warehouses and other installations of Kagi, Formosa, during the Oct. 11 attack. U.

S. strategy seemed based on knocking out Formosa bases supplying the Philippines, with a follow-up attack on the Philippines. Leyte landings started yesterday have been kept low by constant coverage of the air forces and First Army troops have been at-tackinn Aachen, medieval seat of ships' guns, including the 16 paign," he said, "my opponent has not offered to the people of this country even the pretense of a program for the future. He tells the working men and wom inciters of battleships, front line Charlemaenes empire ana im portant bastion of the Siegfried dispatches made clear that the Japanese have mustered their be en of America to trust him, to line, since Sept. 15.

On Oct. 10 the city's German garrison was wildered forces sufficiently to put do as they are told and ask no questions. That is the end re ordered to surrender wunin suit under one-man government. 50-Block Area Devastated In Cleveland by Terrific Explosions of Liquid Gas up bitter resistance in some sec tors. FOUR SHIPS SUNK GREAT FORCE HITS PHILIPPINES General map of Japanese Pacific area shows how U.

S. air and sea forces struck blows at the enemy's supply and air bases, then, under General MacArthur, moved back into the Philippines in a great attack that split Jap hours or be annihilated Dy American guns and planes, wnen the ultimatum was rejected tne One of the toughest occurred at Palo, just below Yanks launched an all-out as OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL "It is the inevitable end of 1 philosophy which see no real fu ture for America. It is the re anese forces in two. Heavy American landings were made in Tacloban bay in the northeast central Philippines on Leyte island in first movement. sault that quickly settled into house-to-house fighting with bay sector.

leading bewildered children to onets, bazookas and self-propelled suit of a viewpoint that can see Fred Hampson, Associated Press safety. Police cruisers sped nothing ahead but a repetition CLEVELAND A series of terrific liquid gas storage tank blasts and the resultant holocaust yesterday dealt flaming death to war correspondent, reported: "The seat of your government is now therefore firmly re-established on Philippine soil," he continued. "The hour of your redemption is here. I now call upon your supreme effort that the enemy may know from the temper of an aroused and outraged people within that he has a force to contend with no less violent than Is the force committed from without." MacArthur's appeal, made a few hours after he had landed with his assault forces after a terrific air and naval bombardment, came two and a half years after his memorable words, "I shall return," spoken upon reaching Australia from Corregidor, Every available able-bodied survivor of historic Bataan and Corregidor was with him. VETERANS LEAD LANDING With him in the landing barge were Filipino President- Sergio Osmena; Brig.

Gen. Carlos Romu-lo, resident commissioner of the Philippines; Lt. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland, American chief-of-staff who left the Philippines in 1942 with MacArthur; and Lt.

Gen. George Kenney, commander of the Far East Air Forces, A bright sun was shining. MacArthur sat upright at the stern; with Sutherland, Osmena, Kenney and Romulo standing just below him. As he sat down, the general Soviets Capture Belgrade through the district shouting of its own peacetime failures a "Four landing ships sank and several smaller craft about us return after the war to unemployment, with leaf raking and doles warning to residents: "The neigh borhood is on fire! Get your chil were smothered by Jap shore an undetermined number oi persons, caused injuries to some 200 others and devastated sections of While Other Reds Advance dren and get out as quickly as guns and mortars. "I am sure America will never guns.

Aachen, whose peacetime population was 165,000, is 40 miles from Cologne on the Rhine and 240 miles from Berlin. Its famous cathedral, resting place of Charlemagne, is standing with only relatively minor wounds. you can! "We moved the last 500 yards residential property over a 50-block area on Cleveland's east side. toward the beach aboard Higgins boats in a rain of shrapnel and Info East Prussian Towns A second explosion soon rocked the area, skyrocketing a fresh column of flames heavenward. As the raging fire machine-gun bullets.

When, after While only three victims' eternal minutes, we could land we hit the sand and had to plow spread on the wings of a brisk LONDON. (JP) Russian and through waist deep water through breeze, still more blasts occurred, although less severe, bodies were received at the county morgue, estimates of fatalities ranged from 12 to possibly 40. Five of the hospitalized injured were reported in critical condition. geysers thrown up by very near Aachen's fall nails down the right flank of a solid 85-mile front anchored at Arnhem in Holland, behind which the Germans declare Gen. Dwight D.

Allied troops captured the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade and conquered Hungary's third city of Debrecen on the road to Buda misses. Pools of liquid gas detonated and minor blasts occurred in gas mains, apparently as the highly volatile substance land on the southern side of the Junker province. A new Soviet crossing of the frontier south of Ebenrode and Eydtkau, the latter a frontier village taken Thursday, resulted in Red army troops reaching the Romintcnscke Heide, Berlin said. This is a 135-square-mile area oi heath and forest land lour to seven miles inside East Prussia. pest yesterday as Berlin an Eisenhower is mounting a great offensive designed to knock Ger nounced that other Soviet forces crashing through the smoking "Until midafternoon, the ships unloaded doggedly under enemy fire At long last, the struggling soldiers dragged our own artillery ashore and began answering the Japanese." reached those outlets.

many out of the war before win ter snows set in. The blaze virtually raced amid ruins of East Prussian villages had penetrated seven miles inside pre-war Germany. BATTLE NEAR ANTWERP frame dwellings, several block submit to that dreary prospect," he continued. "We are going forward to swift, total victory over our enemies abroad. We are going to take the lead in building a world organization for lasting peace, and here at home we are going to establish a government, which will make possible a vigorous productive economy with jobs and opportunity for all." The New York governor, who came here from Albany for a one-speech appearance and planned to return to the New York capital immediately, earlier expressed belief that Roosevelt's decision to campaign actively in Philadelphia, New York and other cities indicated fear of defeat.

Thursday's hurricane played havoc with press association wires in Florida. As a result the one remaining AP wire yesterday was taxed with news. This made it impossible to transmit the full text of Gov. Dewey's speech. However, the accompanying article is a good summary of it.

A Pearl Harbor communique of (Canadian armor and infantry Directing scores of police in the seared area, Detective Inspector Frank Storey said he personally had seen 12 bodies among charred remnants in the wake of the inferno. At police headquarters, Capt. Harry Weis said reports from officers at the scene indicated a fatality toll of possibly 40. An earth-shaking explosion of Adm. Chester W.

Nimitz detail A total of 17,147 Germans were killed or captured in a trap south opened a new offensive yesterday from the East Ohio property before firemen were able to lay lines and bring streams of water into play. ng how carrier planes laid low east of Belgrade. Moscow's daily north of Antwerp along me mam Antwero-Rosendaal highway, remarked to Sutherland witn a broad smile: "Well, believe it or not, we're here." Elements of Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger's Sixth Army, veterans of New Guinea warfare, and at The fire area is roughly the Japanese defenses on Leyte and nearby islands to help clear the way for landings, listed the destruction of 87 planes and the sinking of a large enemy cargo ship.

aimed at giving flanking insurance to other Canadian forces who had sealed the neck of the neninsula leading onto South The Germans implied that the drive launched by the brilliant young Jewish tank expert. Gen. Ivan I). Cherniakhovsky, also was fanning out north of K.vdtkau, Indicating that armored spearheads were engaged in turning the flank defenses of Tilsit, already menaced by a third Russian army arrayed along the northern side oi East Prussia in the Memel area. bounded by East Fifty-fifth street on the west, East Sixty-fourth street on the east, St.

Clair ave one of the East Ohio Gas com tached units from the central Pacific with supporting forces made the long expected landings, Beveland and Walcheren islands pany's two spherical liquid gas tanks at East 61st street, and the New York Central railroad tracks bulletin announced. Waves of Red army warriors punched new holes in Nazi homeland defenses on a 25-mile front opposite Lithuania, reaching the area of Ebenrode (Stal-luponen), a communications center seven miles inside the Junkers province, Berlin said. Moscow was silent on the invasion of Germany, but Berlin nue on the south and Lake Shore boulevard (beside Lake Erie) on the north. north of the Schelde estuary. The new drive gained more than which had been reported earlier by the Tokio radio.

sent flames hundreds of feet sky five miles in the first lew hours ward about 2:50 p. m. (CWT). a front dispatch said. The bag of planes raised to more than 1,400 the number knocked out by carrier planes since they opened preparations for the Philippines Invasion Oct.

9 with attacks on the Ryu-kyus within 200 miles of Japan. Witnesses said the blast hurled a The crack "greater Germany" (The Canadian offensive was canopy of fire over frame struc division has been thrown into the struggle, one Nazi broadcast described as the second phase in the iob of clearing the approaches tures in the immediate vicinity and shattered windows more than broadcasts said the still-rolling offensive from the east had Fire Chief James Nimmo said at 6 p. "We have the fire corralled now between Sixty-third and Fifty-fifth streets." He expressed fear, however, that additional gas main explosions might occur "and might cause it to spread again." The number of homes within said. to Antwerp, which the Allies "The natural inference," he told a press conference, "would a mile distant. Recoiling from the surprise The lodgments on Leyte, on the eastern side of the archipelago, were "rapidly extended" by ground forces, MacArthur said announcing the operation.

Supplies and heavy equipment immediately began flowing ashore in large volume. (President Roosevelt announced in Washington yesterday that the reinvasion was' proceeding on schedule and badly need as a supply port for British troops liberating Greece drove 32 miles northwest from be that Roosevelt is trying to re WARNED TO FLEE landings, the Nipponese were reported shelling the invaders the western front. A enspaten from Associated Press War Cor- obliterated whole villages, was within 30 miles of the large junction of Insterburg on the Kaunas-Konigsberg highway and verse a trend which is now so Athens and occupied the legen Officials of the East Ohio Gas with mortars and artillery. resDondent Roger Greene said dary city of Thebes. An Allied communique told of continued Yank ground forces have con company, owner of the $6,000,000 liquifying and storage properties, the German pocket near Bresken the area from which residents were evacuated was estimated at strong that it indicates a Re publican victory in November." This was in response to a re quest for comment on the appar solidated all beachheads on Leyte was accompanied by other heavy Soviet thrusts from northern Po heavy fighting in Italy.

on the south bank of the bcneiae said an explosion in a nearby 600, with a sprinkling of small in the central Philippines and are moving inland, headquarters an testing laboratory of the Ameri was "collapsing like a pricked balloon." The count of Nazi prisoners in the Schelde pocket fight can Gas association apparently business places. Of these, possibly 150 dwellings and 30 busi ent deviation from Roosevelt's earlier statement that he would fired the liquid gas tanks. Cause nounced today in its second communique on the invasion. Ground casualties were reported com ness establishments were de ing stood at almost 3,200.) of the laboratory explosion was Wallace Sees Tidal Wave Of Sentiment for F.D.R. See PHILIPPINES, Page 2, Col.

3 Texas May Halt Citrus Shipments stroyed or damaged, it was said not immediately established. paratively light. Food and supplies are pouring Scores of fires sprang up al by John Sveknc, a civilian de fense volunteer at the scene. most instantly as the tinder-dry ashore as the invaders come to not campaign in the usual sense In his speech at the Hunt armory here, which was broadcast nationally, Dewey asserted the slogan of the New Deal is: "Back to normalcy with ten million unemployed." He said improved labor rela structures were ignited. Panic grips with the selfsame Japanese who tortured the Americans and Unofficial sources said the number of persons driven from their homes might exceed 1,500.

stricken mothers darted hatless The damage in Aachen is appalling, and if the German people in the cities to the east could see the havoc wrought by the decision of their leaders to fight in every street and every city it would be an object lesson they would never forget. Last night the men who cap "If the Republicans should OMAHA, Neb. (U.R A tidal. and coatless from burning homes Filipinos following the surrender wave of sentiment for the re-elec win, Wallace said, it will mean an end to the triple A and th tions began under Republican ad- ever-normal granary, even as th Japs Agree to Permit Food Democratic victory in 1932 meant i ministrations with the railway labor act, anti-child labor laws, the anti-injunction bill of rights an end to the farm board." tured the city received Ihe plaudits of their commanding general, who praised them for a tion of President Roosevelt appears to be sweeping westward from the eastern seaboard. Vice President Henry Wallace said at a press conference last night shortly before addressing a Democratic rally in Omaha's city Wallace said the farm program Supplies to War Prisoners lor laoor, and other measures discussed bv Gov.

John See WAR, Page 2, Col. 7 adding: HARLINGEN, Tex, (T) Texas citrus growers have been asked to curtail shipments for the next three weeks to allow Florida growers to get their hurricane-damaged fruit off the ground and to markets. J. E. McDonald, state commissioner of agriculture, in a message to the Valley Morning Star yesterday strongly urged valley growers and shippers to "cut shipments to the bone." Fruit knocked from Florida trees by this week's hurricane must be marketed quickly or it will spoil, he said.

McDonald reminded valley at Bataan in 1942. The Japanese air force dealt counter-blows and succeeded in damaging one of the vessels of the (iOO-ship convoy, the communique said. Another was hit by shore fire. The communique made no reference to a report from the invasion scene that the air field at Tacloban on Leyte had been seized. JAP POSITION IS HOPELESS General MacArthur, who went ashore with his forces Thursday Brirker (Republican vice prcsi "This program was a part of tionals under Japanese control is already in transit to the easterly WASHINGTON-(INS) Un- dersecretarv of State Edward R.

drntial nominee), indicated the the social trend which has con Republicans were for crop loan Soviet port. tinued since the social security Stettinius revealed yesterday "We are hopeful of carrying and support prices without, th In reply to a reporter at his law, the wage and hour law and triple A or the ever-normal even Maine for Roosevelt," Wal news conference, Stettinius said See DEWEY, Page 2, Col. 6 granary. he had nothing new on the Po lish-Russian situation. He ex lace said.

"I visited all the New England states except Vermont and found no discouragement for "With the European demand fading, as it will, a program of pressed hope that a solution will (U. S. time) was quoted in a GRACIE ALLEN shortly be found which will make possible a strong and independ field dispatch as saying that there was little more than one Japanese growers that when a devastating Roosevelt. In the middle Atlantic states there was no discouragement. And now in Nebraska, which various poll takers have F.D.R.

Broadcasts At 9:30 Tonight (See Story on Page 7) From New York city tonight beginning st 9:30 o'clock President Roosevelt will be heard In an address before the Foreign Policy association in the Waldorf Aastoria hotel. The president's address will be carried over NBC and Blue networks. His talk is expected to last 45 minutes. Stations WFLA and WSUN will carry the president's ent Poland. division on Leyte.

hurricane struck tne lower mo Grande valley in September, 1933. Florida halted all shipments of HOLLYWOOD. Lots of peo pie are sayinr this political cam that Japan has agreed to permit delivery of relief supplies from Vladivostok to American prisoners of war and civilian internees in the Philippines and in other Japanese-held territory. The undersecretary said that 2,500 tons of American Red Cross relief materials which have piled up on Vladivostok wharves for two years, will be transported to the Soviet port of Nakhoda, 60 miles east of Vladivostok, where the relief supplies will be picked up by a Japanese ship. Negotiations for the delivery of the Red Cross food, clothing and medicines have ben carried fruit and allowed Texas to sal In commenting on reports that other Latin-American countries had measurably increased their exports to Argentina within recent months, the undersecretary paign isn't being handled rieht vage thousands of dollars worth and for one, certainly agree wnn mem.

For instance. I haven't seen reiterated that the United States crop loans without the ever-normal granary," he said, "would have the same sad end as the farm board. It would lead to the same abyss of crumbling prices. Crops loans would be so low as to mean nothing. 'With two good crop years, prir a would decline to the 10 cent corn and 30 cent wheat level as it did under the farm board." Under such a condition the net farm income would be cut in half.

Wallace To prevent that "we must have full employment of labor with good wages." Wallace pointed out that farm Its position was hopeless, he told William B. Dickinson, representing the combined American press. American naval and air power, he explained, would make reinforcement impossible. There was no late word from the forces that landed farther south on Leyte near San Jose and the southern tip of the island. While his assault forces streamed ashore along the eastern government was closely collab single news photo of a candidate said was the safest state for the Republicans, I find no discouragement." "It looks like a tidal wave sweeping in from the eastern seaboard." Wallace, who finished a four-day campaign tour In his native Iowa before coming to Nebraska said Democratic congress chances In his home state "were orating with the Latin-American holding a baby.

Goodness knows republics on the Argentine ques It would be specially helpful thi tion through normal diplomatic year, what with so many of the motners working in war plants, on with the Japanese government SELL IT SUNDAY of citrus that otherwise wouia have been lost. "It's the least we can do," McDonald said in his message to the valley. Guatamalan President Is Overthrown GU ATEMALA CITY. (JP) President Federico Ponce was overthrown yesterday in a revolt led by young officers of the Guatemalan army and versity students. through neutral Switzerland since coast of Leyte island, MacArthur channels.

Stettinius brushed aside i newsman's question on the in ternationalization of the Dar denelles which, according to re And why doesn't one of the candidates take advantage of the cigarette shortage? Many a long Whether it is a used car, a piece of furniture, a cow, a boat, a late 1942. The Soviet government, Stettinius said, would offer safe face would brighten up with much better than he anticipated." He predicted the November elections would result in a "Democratic senate and undoubtedly a Democratic house." cigarette in it. If they can get votes bv promising "a chicken in conduct for the supply vessel in what are believed to be heavily-mined waters as far as Nakhodka. It is believed that the "mercy" dramatically broadcast his appeal to the islanders: "I have returned. Rally to mr.

Let the Indomitable spirit of Bataan and dor lead on. As the lines of prosperity had come during the Hoosevelt administration and then remaiked that 'farmers when niosneinu? tec! they tan house, a mortgage, a dog, a flock of chickens or an electric pump, if there's a market for it in St. Petersburg, a Times classified ad will sell it. Dial 5101 and ask for an ad-taker. Adv.

ports, was under consideration by the Allies. Stettinius declined to comment but said that this was a military question at the present every pot," thev should be able to The vice president discussed the start a landslide by promising cigaretU in every pan." vessel carrying the much-nccded relief supplies to American na afford to be Republicans." farm problem at the rally. time..