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The Price of Victory Associated Prest United Preu Central Pitts TAXES AND WAR BONDS It Takes Both LXXXI No. 1 ESTABLISHED 1876 BUTTE, MONTANA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1943 HOME EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS i "a 57 mash Russians Base Ships OS'S- 130. Xjl.VOSy at Et eayy Dnieper at Three Adolf Hitler Reportedly Orders Purge of All Jews in Europe Before End of the War Nazi Attacks on Eighth Army Repulsed Floods Slow Fifth Army in Push on Vulturno River ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 7. (U.R) Battling desperately to head off an Eighth army thrust toward Rome, the Germans have hurled a full tank division into counter-attacks against the Allies' new Adriatic bridgehead, at Termoli, but the enemy has been beaten back with the help of naval bombardment, Allied dispatches said Thursday.

Advancing close to the Nazis' Volturno "river line on the opposite end of the Italian front, Fifth army Fighting Flares Along Entire Front as Soviets Take Last Strongholds in Kuban and Open New Drives in the North Bv ROBERT S. MUSEL LONDON, Oct. 7 (U.R) The Russian front flamed into action Thursday from Leningrad to the Caucasus, with Red army troops forcing the Dnieper at three points, taking the last strongholds of the-enemy's Kuban bridgehead, capturing the vital rail junction of Nevel, north of Vitebsk, and opening a new drive to complete the liberation of Leningrad. imagine what we've been through. Our homes were sacked, and burned, and small children and adults were killed." Refugees said the Germans ordered the arrest of 7,000 Jews.

More than 3,000 fled to Sweden. Scores were killed and others fled to the Danish countryside. Swedish correspondents reported Germans in Berlin were expressing indignation at the formal Swedish offer Saturday of a haven for refugee Jews from By JOHN H. COLBURN STOCKHOLM, Oct. 7.

U.R) Adolf Hitler was reported Thursday to have ordered all Jews cleared out of Europe before the end of the war, with a purge in Italy scheduled to follow immediately after the current persecution in Denmark. The capitulation of the Badoglio government in Italy 1 already is being blamed in Rome on the Jews, according to reports received here, and German- Line Places Report Himmler Takes Over Nazi Air Force Switch in Command Gives Him Powerful Weapon STOCKHOLM, 7. (JF) Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo and recently named minister or the interior "Under Adolf -Hitler; was reported in a German-language broadcast from an unidentified radio station Thursday night to have taken control of the Nazi air force. The German air force, separate from the army, has been under the control of Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering. The switch in command, if true, would give Himmler another powerful weapon to control both the military and home fronts.

Goering and the army always have been regarded as close and this yearj-after a bitter struggle with Goering, Himmler began developing a separate air force, largely made up of transports and training planes, for his SS guards. (The-fact the radio station was hot tehdsto cast doubt on the authenticity of the reported change in command. Such a story might have been transmitted by a clandestine, anti-Nazi station simply to confuse the Germans.) Recalls Envoy to the U. S. JWASHINGTONOctl7.

1U.PA Veteran Argentina Ambassador Felipe A. Espil was recalled by his government Thursday and the State department announced' simultane ously that while it was returning United States Ambassador Norman. Armour to Buenos Aires it still be lieved Argentina has failed to live up to her inter-American commitments. The Argentine foreign office announced Thursday night the appointment of Adrian Escobar as Argentine ambassador to the United States to succeed Espil. The developments came just one month after Secretary of State Cor-dell Hull bluntly accused Argentina of giving aid and comfort to the Axis powers by maintaining diplomatic relations with them.

He also charged Argentina with failing to do her share in defense of the western hemisphere and with letting her sister American republics down. 502 PLANES FOUND ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 7. (P) The count of destroyed Axis airplanes found on air fields in Italy by the Allied forces has reached 502, Allied air headquarters said Thursday. REQUESTS MORE FUNDS WASHINGTON, Oct.

7. (JP) President Roosevelt sent to Congress Thursday a request for an additional appropriation of for the Office of War NAPLES DESTRUCTION VAST View of devastated railroad lines and buildings in Naples, wrecked by terrific aerial bombardment and artillery barrages. Photo by Charles Seawood, Acme photographer for the War Picture Pool. By Signal Corps Ra? diotelephoto. Germans Begin Demolitions East of Rome Prepare to Blow Up Strategic Areas in the City NEW- YORK, Oct.

7. (JF The Germans have begun demolitions in the hills east of Rome and are preparing to blow up strategic installations within Rome itself to delay the entry of the Allied armies into the city, NBC Correspondent Merrill Mueller reported in a broadcast from Italy Thursday. Germans wrecking crews "are preparing to blast the bridges over the Tiber river where it 1 runs through Rome, Mueller said, quoting an official adviser to Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Also reported ori 5ne list for "de molition are the xapital's viaducts, key -highwaySr certain large government properties and the water and power system. Mueller reported that thus far there were no signs the Nazis were preparing to demolish downtown Rome, or to lay booby-traps in the Italian capital.

He said these concessions probably were due to the proximity of Vatican city to central Rome and Nazi fears of Catholic uprisings should Vatican city be dam aged. However, all military Install1- tions on the outskirts of Rome, Mueller said, "are being made ready for destruction at a moment's notice. WILE REMOVE POPE LONDON, Friday, Oct. A Reuters dispatch from Zurich quoting diplomatic reports reaching Switzerland said Friday the Germans planned to "remove the pope to a north Italian town offering greater security," should Rome be in danger of capture by the Allies. This decision was said to have been taken on the ground that the Germans had assumed responsibility for protecting the pope and could not allow him to be endangered by street fighting.

Polish Underground Forces Execute German Governors LONDON, Oct. 7. (JP) With pistol and machine-gun, Polish underground forces are carrying out the death sentences they have pronounced on German governors of concentration camps in Poland. The first execution, reported to the government-in-exile Thursday, occurred September 7 when two men walked up to Nazi Governor Buerckel on a Warsaw corner. One shot Buerckel down with a pistol as the other opened up with a machine-gun on a group of Germans accompanying him, killing six, the information to the government said.

Both men were reported to have escaped. Evacuation Is Reportedly Still Going On Allied Planes Hit Enemy Shipping Over a Wide Area By VERN HAU GLAND ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, in the Southwest Pacific, Fri day, Oct. Starving and short of ammunition, the Japanese apparently have abandoned their principal air base of Vila and, at considerable cost in lives and ships, have fled the entire southern half of Kolombangara island In the Solomons, General MacArthur announced. Fri day. Evacuation of the rest of the island is in progress.

"Cutting of supply lines support- ing Vila, accomplished several weeks ago by our surprise occupation of Vella Lavella to the north, thus outflanking all sea supply routes, has forced the enemy to attempt to evacuate his troops from Kolom bangara," a communique said. Already Abandoned "Vila, and-the southern-part, of the island apparently already have been abandoned by troops moving toward the northern shores. "For several nights by. barge and small warship, the attempt at evacuation has been progressing. Many barges have been sunk with great loss of enemy life and some of his troops undoubtedly escaped to safety.

The enemy's struggle to evacuate continues." which is across the Kula gulf from won New Georgia and has undergone artillery shelling from American forces on (Continued on Page 3, Col. 8) Germans Strike at London Two of Raiders Are Downed in Flames By JAMES F. KING LONDON, Friday, Oct. t.iJPy German air force made and longest raid on London and other sections of southeast England in two years shortly after dark Thursday night as a great of R. A.

F. bombers winged out over the channel for new attacks against the continent. The roar of the British bomber armada flying high across the searchlight-studded skies of the capital synchronized with the staccato blasts of the anti-aircraft barrage. Ground gunners knocked down at least two of the fairly large number of enemy raiders which dashed over the capital beneath the outbound bombers. Not since the night of May 8, 1941, had the Nazi air force launched a comparable attack.

There were both casualties and property damage In London, East Anglia and other districts but neither was as extensive as the toll caused almost nightly two years ago. The raid on London began early, while west end streets still were thronged. As the barrage put up by the capital's defenses increased in intensity, Britons and others who had been here through three years of air attacks headed for shelters. Many American soldiers stayed out-continued on Page 2, Col. 6) WEATHER FORECAST Little change In temperature with scattered showers Friday and Friday evening.

Thursday's maximum, 76; minimum, 34. cance of the Wake attack, regardless of whether it was a raid for destruction of Japanese Installations or the beginning of a whirlwind campaign to reconquer the island. The pattern of the Wake action was established in an American task force raid on Marcus Island a month ago. Marcus is only about 1.000 miles from Japan, and although warships shelled It and 1 planes bombed it for hours on end not a sea-borne enemy, gun showed up to defend it. The explanation seems to lie in the fact that the Japanese have been decisively beaten In naval and air fighting from the Bering era to the Indian ocean and are unwllllrif to risk their remaining warship for any except the greatest stake In other words, to try to prevent direct threat to Japan iUelf.

not, one thing is sure: Not a single Jew and very few Poles will be left in Europe." Both the Social Demokraten and the Svenska Dagbladet said they had learned that Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler as well as the German ambassador io Denmark, Werner Best, and the former military chief in Denmark, Gen. Hermann von Han-necken, all had opposed the purge in Denmark. A prominent Danish Jew who reached Sweden this morning said, "You can't I Administration Hits Sales Tax Congress Opposes Forced Savings WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. (JF)' The administration aligned itself solidly Thursday against a federal retail sales tax, and congressional opposition developed to any compulsory savings program as a part of the new revenue law.

Other developments on the swiftly changing tax front included: 1. Economic Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson apparently failed to muster congressional interest in the administration's new tax program, members of the wys and means committee leaning toward a much lower figure. 2. Rep.

Celler (D-NY) declared in a statement that an increase in the liquor tax from $6 to $10 a gallon, as recommended by the administration, would cause a return to "bootlegging and highjacking." 3. President Philip Murray of the C. I. O. wrote Ways and Means Chairman Doughton (D-NC) opposing any downward revision of personal exemptions In paying.

inT come taxes. 4. Rep. Fulmer (D-SC), who is chairman of the House agriculture committee, urged adoption of the treasury recommendation for re-peal of the 3 per cent levy on transportation of property. Vinson told the ways and means committee a 10 per cent sales tax, calculated to bring in $6,000,000,000 annually, would break the government's "hold the line," home front policy and open the way for wild inflation.

Treasury witnesses previously made the same argument. Sponsors of a sales tax expressed doubt that it could pass, in view of the administration's position. THREE DIE IN CRASH SAN BERNARDINO, Oct. 7. (U.R) An Army bomber crashed In the residential district here Thursday, killing three men aboard the plane, Police Chief James Cole said.

7 mail i days remain to send soldiers' gifts overseas. 21 days are left for sending Yule gifts to Sailors. Marines, Coast Guardsmen who are away from continental United Btates. papers in Rome declare that "Fascism demands that Jews should be rendered Harmless and must disappear from the national life of Italy." The Stockholm newspaper Social Demokraten said it had learned from informed German circles that a Hitlerian decree already had been issued ordering all Jews cleared from Europe. Another Swedish source was told by a high German Elite Guard officer who visited here recently that "whether we win the war or House Committee Cuts Allowances Granted by Senate WASHINGTON, Oct.

7. U.R) A measure substantially boosting dependency allowances for servicemen's children but falling short of increases proposed in the Senate-approved occupational deferment bill, was approved Wednesday by the House military affairs committee. It stipulates no change in the $50 monthly allotment for a childless wife, but provides $25 extra for the first child, $20 more for thesecond, and $15 for each additional child. Present allowance's are $12 for the first child and $10 for each additional. DENY REPORTS NEW YORK, Oct.

7. (JF) The Vatican radio broadcast Thursday night a statement of LTQsservatore Romano, Vatican newspapers, denying what were termed reports that Archbishop Francis J. Spell-man of New York, after a visit to Pope Pius XII, had been instrumental in arranging the Italian armistice. are "learning fast from experience" and are not repeating mistakes; equipment, food and medical care is good, but the men want a policy of home furloughs for overseas troops with long service and they want "the true picture of their hardships" given to the public. The Senate heard some sharp criticism from Russell of what he termed the British tendency to claim the major share of credit for Allied victories.

He read from an Australian newspaper an account which said that the Italian surrender could be attributed ,90. per cent to British efforts. He and Lodge said British representatives nearly always moved in right behind American troops, particularly in the Pacific. The gist of their complaint appeared to be that the British always knew where they were aiming economically and politically, while American representatives were at a loss to know what was United States national policy. In this connection, Russell told his colleagues he feared many countries were expecting post-war help from the United States that could not be given without bankrupting this country.

He insisted that relief and rehabilitation ought to be limited to what the Army finds necessary to keep the civil population going. The new Soviet drives in the north, apparently aimed at the Baltic states and Poland, put the Red army only 67 miles east of the vulnerable Latvian border, Dnieper Line Split After days of relative inactivity a pause necessary for bringing up reserves, a Moscow communique said the Soviets ripped into German defenses north of Kiev, south of Pereyaslav and southeast of Kremenchug, sending troops across the west bank of the Dnieper where enemy counterattacks were repulsed with heavy losses to the Nazis. Thus the which Adolf Hitler had ordered his troops to hold at" all costs, was- split wide open at three places and, Moscow reported, "our troops are widening their operational areas step by step." The exact locations of the bridgeheads were not given in Moscow's operational communique. The Germans have reported crossings of the Dnieper by Soviet troops in the Pripet river area, 48 miles north of Kiev, and have reported heavy fighting elsewhere for bridgeheads. The crossing south of Pereyaslav was made some 50 miles southeast of Kiev and the bridgehead carved (Continued on Page 3, Col, 1) goslavyis Tanks in Fight: Croatian Capital Is Under Siege Yugoslav people's imny of libera tion revealed Thursday that It was using tanks In its growing offensive to oust the Germans, from Yugoslavia and; northeastern Italy, while Stockholm reports said that parti san forces had the great city of Zagreb, capital of Croatia, under virtual siege; A communique from partisan headquarters, broadcast by the free Yugoslav radio, said that liberation forces, supported by tanks apparently for the first time, had repulsed a German tank column which attempted to break through partisan lines from Trieste to Flume, In northeastern Italy.

"Ten German tanks and one plane were destroyed," the com munique said. The partisans lost four tanks. Reports reaching Stockholm from Budapest said that Zagreb, a city of 180,000, was encircled by forces of Gen. Josip (Tito) Brozovich's partisan army, who had advanced to the city's immediate vicinity and cut off all communications, caus ing a severe food shortage in the capital, seat of the Creation puppet premier, Ante Pavlovitch; and his pro-German government. Conditions at Zagreb were described as "completely chaotic," food transports being regularly intercepted by the partisans.

Their forces were reported to have been swelled by members of the strong. Influential Croatian peasant party, whose leader, Dr. Vladimir Mat-chek, Is a German prisoner. These reports also said that of 600 railroad stations in Croatia only 112. were usable, the remainder having been burned by partisans.

Admiral Kincaid Praises Seabees AN ALEUTIAN ISLAND BASE, Oct. 7. (P) The Navy construction battalion (Seabees) and the Army engineers drew praise Thursday from Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid, North Pacific supreme commander, as the actual builders of the Aleutian shortcut toward Tokyo. "Without the Seabees the Navy would just be lost in this war," the admiral said in discussing the close co-operation between the new sailor construction battalions and the long famous Army engineers.

The men whose bulldozers and cranes went along with the weapons which drove the Japanese from Attu and Kiski are carrying on an Immense construction job, which already dwarfs such peacetime wonders as the $75,000,000 Boulder dam project. One Aleutian base alone costs that much. SUB REPORTS SUCCESS LONDON, Oct. 7. The Polish submarine Dzik sank two' German supply ships and three ferries off Corsica during the enemy's attempt to evacuate troops from Bas-tia, a Polish communique said Thursday.

The Dzik also scored torpedo hits on a large transport and a large tanker, which were listed In the communique as "probably troops have been slowed by floods in the low country north of Naples. Wednesday's report that the Vol turno had been crossed was in error, headquarters said, due to confusion with the' previously reported crossing of the tributary Calore river to the Occupy Five Towns (Dispatches to London said that in mopping up operations the Fifth army had occupied Pozzuoli, Qua-lianoL Villaricca, Anzano and Ma-rano, all in the coastal sector between Aversa and Naples.) As the Nazis shuffled their five central Italy divisions frantically In an effort to secure a line from Termoli to the Tyrrhenian, eight miles north of Naples, Allied flyers raked their columns continually, destroying a total of 250 vehicles in two days. In another powerful blow at rear communications, Flying Fortresses flew a round-trip from North Africa to blast the road junction of Mestre, 10 miles west of Venice, for the first time. Sink Six Vessels (The admiralty announced In London that British submarines had sunk six German vessels and damaged two in new Mediterranean operations The focal point of the battle for Rome had shifted to the east coast as the Eighth army's seaborne landings at Termoli opened two new offensive possibilities: 1. A further drive of 55 miles up the east coast" to Pescara, terminus of the main east-west road to RomeT" 2.

A push inland to squeeze the Germans in a nutcracker, assisted by the Fifth army. The Germans began their counterattacks Tuesday after shifting armored forces clear across Italy by 1 forced march," and for a few hours it was feared the enemy might (Continued on Page 7, Col. 1) Germans Recapture Landing Fields on Island of Coo CAIRO, Oct. 7. (JP) The British declared.

Thursday that fierce resistance- against German forces landing on the Dodecanese island of Coo was continuing, but admitted the Germans had captured a number of landing grounds and now control the town of Coo. A British communique said the Small force of Allied defenders on the island, in the Aegean sea, was exacting a heavy toll from the Germans. R. A. F.

bombers rained explosives on the nearby Islands of Rhodes and Crete Tuesday night, pounding German airfields. R. A. F. fighters, who attacked German landing parties at Coo Sunday when the Nazis launched their attack to attempt to wrest the island from the Allies, said they swooped low with cannons blazing, and planted bombs among the Nazi vessels, and that they saw wrecked and smoking landing equipment scattered along the beach.

Russell also took the British to task for not launching ah offensive in Burma, although the Georgia senator expressed confidence in the ability of the New India-Burma commander, Lord Louis Mount-batten. He told his colleagues Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault's American Army air force is doing most of present active fighting against the Japanese in China, but Lodge added that the Chinese armies are holding off 15 Jap divisions.

"Urges Reapportionment Senator Mead urged a reapportionment of United Nations petroleum supplies, with the British meeting a larger share of needs. President Roosevelt told a press conference last Tuesday that steps toward this end are being taken. He said the British had wanted to furnish a larger share of oil all along, but that it was not feasible until Allied victories opened the Mediterranean sea route to British-controlled oil sources In the Middle East. Senators Chandler and Brewster two other legislators recently back from the fronts, will add their reports Friday at a further closed session. Chandler said he would tell his colleagues he would not be surprised If German home morale cracks this winter, obviating the need of a cross-chan-nel invasion, Solon Estimates Million American Lives Can Be Saved in Beating Japan If Russia Will Open Siberian Bases to Allied Bombers CED Leaders Discuss Plans' Returning Soldiers Will Have Jobs Butte and Montana boys fighting on a half dozen battle fronts are going to have jobs when they return, a committee of 25 state and local industrial, business and government leaders vowed here Thursday afternoon at a meeting to discuss post-war problems and their solution.

Already an organization has been created in Montana to help find jobs for men and women in the post-war period. The state setup was praised by Herman C. Weh-mann of Minneapolis, representing the Committee for Economic Development, who sounded the keynote when he said the job of his organization is to find jobs. "We are trying to help people help themselves by co-ordinating their efforts. Butte is one of a (Continued (on Page 7, Col.

4) Following Thursday's session, Rus sell made public a summary of recommendations and observations to which the five touring members agreed, Its major points were: 1. A "clear national policy" should be established and American representatives abroad given "appropriate international rank" so that military, diplomatic and business personnel can work together as a team. 2. We have yet no rights to the post-war use of huge landing fields we have constructed outside the western hemisphere and there future use may be "just as essential to our security as battleships or divisions" and indispensable to the growth of commercial aviation. 3.

Too much American gasoline is being made available to civilians in North Africa; more oil for the United Nations forces should come from the Middle East; existing sources of crude rubber in the Orient should be increased; this country ought to share on a parity basis in the communications systems of the world. 4. Propaganda activities of the Office of War Information in foreign countries raise "many doubts'" and the policy should be investigated. Want Home Furloughs 5. American, field commanders Navy Assault on Wake Island Is Challenge to the Japanese Control of West-Central Pacific By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Oct.

7. (IP The Senate, afforded a bomb bay view of the fighting fronts in reports from three globe-girdling members, heard an estimate from one Thursday that a million American lives can be saved In conquering Japan if Russia will open Siberian bases to Allied bombers. Senator Lodge one of the group who reported behind doors which were locked against the public and the press for the first time since June, 1942, gave this estimate in" a review dealing largely with the toughness of the fighting in the Pacific. While the session was secret, many members talked fully about it afterward and some said they saw no reason for the secrecy. Criticize British Before Lodge spoke, the Senate had heard Senator Russell standing beside huge global map of the world, criticize the British because, he said, they are passing lease-lend materials to other countries without giving credit to the United States.

He suggested that American relief and rehabilitation In occupied countries be under military, Instead of civilian, direction, and said there was lack of a clear foreign policy to guide American military, economic and diplomatic representatives in their competition with the British. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. (JP) The Navy assault on Wake island challenges anew Japan's control of the west-central Pacific.

If the Japanese fleet won't come out and fight now the whole, huge mandated island area on which Tokyo has relied heavily for defense of the empire must be considered vulnerable to early American conquest. The betting among military and naval authorities Is that the fleet won't come out, that key points in the Marshall, Gilbert and Caroline islands will be taken against strictly localized resistance and that before the war is many more months along Allied Pacific strategy will have succeeded in cutting the enemy's economic jugular vein through the China sea. That la the long-range signifi.