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The Evening Telegram Invest In Victory BUT WAR STAMPS AND BONDS The Weather I air with moderate temperatures tonight and Sunday. VOL. XXXV-No. 283 EIGHTHS ROCKY MOUNT, N. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 16, 1944 Th Auoeiited ftau Wl PRICE: 5 CENTS la Yanks 1 iles In Reic 21 Marines Fight 8,000 Japs In Furious Peleliu Battle inter Aac hen is 1 US Patro 39 Persons Bead From Hurricane; f.lanteo Flooded Roanoke Island Covered With Water; Wind Damage High By The Associated Press At least 39 persons lost their Bergholz said the landing beach all the Palau Islands, a big naval HURRICANE BUFFETS NORFOLK WITH By The Associated Pres U.S.

Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, Sept. 16 (AP) laarine heroes of Guadalcanal ja drove against 8 000 furiously ighting Japanese today on Peleliu in the invaded Paiaus, closing in on a big airdrome within 515 bomber miles of Davao to the west. Even nearer lat principal city of the Southern Philippines, Yank hghtning conquerors of Morotai, 375 miles south of Davao worked feverishly on air bases within fighter plane rauge of Mindanao These coord nated drives of Aam. Chester W. Nimitz ani uen.

Douglas MacArthur were launched simultaneously Friday (Manila Time) agr.inst bases irom which it will be possible to pring the all-out push into the Philippines. Marines of the First Division, led by Maj. Gen William H. Rup-ertus, of Washington, D.C., hurled back counte 'attacking Japanese soldiers and tanks to gain a mile and one-half long beachhead on Peleliu. So strategic is Peleliu that it promises to unlock i I'll-; Berlin Indicates Germans, Fighting In Finland Hitler Declares That Nazis In Finland Unable To Clear Out By Sept 15 Deadline was the most difficult on yet encountered in the Southwest Pacific.

But the Japanese were not there. MarArthiir's deceptive air attacks had fooled the enemy into thinking the invaders would strike further south. The guns of the Navy nelped break up several Japanese tank-led counteiatta-ks during invasion day on PehJiu. General Rupevtus' First Marine Division made the initial land ings, supported by ships of Rear Adm. George H.

Fort, also of Washington, D.C. These leatherneck heroes of Guadalcanal spearheaded huge operations directed by Vice Adm. T. S. Wilkinson, of Rosslyn Va.

The expeditionary troop are headed by Marine Maj. Gen Julian C. Gmith, of Elkton, Md. The amphibious assault troops are commanded by Marine Maj. Gen.

Roy S. Geiger, of Pensacola, of the Third Amphibious Corps, re-enact-ng the role he filled at Guam. FDR, Churchill Wind Up Parley Agree On Strategy For Whipping Japan BY W. L. BEALE.

JR. QUEBEC, Sept. 16 (AP) Agreed upon the military strategy for obliterating Japan, President Roosavelt ar.J Prime Minister wind up their second Quebec conference today amid expectations that Europe's explosive war warches may require further personal talk3 possibly, with Joseph Stalin. There is no official word en possibilities of a meeting place which Stalin could attend From London came word that Anthony Eden, the British for eign secretary, brought arguments here for a clarification of Anglo-American and Ressian views, particularly as to the Pol ish border question. In Quebec conference circles, Eden's -triirls-tmcterstood to be re lated more particularly to plans for dealing with Germany after the impending Nazi military collapse.

With the Pacific military pattern charted on the Anglo-American council table, the next conversations turned primarily toward shedding the Nazi crazy-ouilt in Europe and on postwar occupation and economic clamps cn Germany and her kin. Prior to the f.onference and press session, it can be reported that these major topics have occupied this week's meeting: 1 Tnnnn ntyJ fViA T3n nifin Tiro A northbound Atlantic hurricane, carrying 70 mile-an-hour wind, was pounding Norfolk, when this photograph was made on one of Norfolk's streets corners. Stalled street cars stand in water and gale swept streets as a boy (center, background) hangs on for dear life. 70-MILE GALE Legion Favors Postwar Training Believes Law Will Come Soon CHICAGO, Sept. 16 (AP) Tla ArMorican T.iityinrt nrfatr Hrflft- ed a new demand for a year of, military training for all able-bod ltd American youths amid pre 1 dictions that a law.

for such ser- ylCtf lyo'lia De enacoen soun. Michael T. Kelleher of Boston, chairman of the organization's national defense committee, said re was certain congress wouia take favorable action on such leg islation. He talked with reporters after the committee heard representatives of education and the armed iorces at a close session conducted in advance of the Legion's national convention opening here Monday for a three-day run. The question now, he said, was what form the proposed act should have.

Col. Perry Brown of Beaumont, chairman of the Legion subcommittee in charge of the universal military strvice project, as serted tomy and Navy instruction should be integrated with aca demic education and that the pro gram should have the support oil educational leaders. The standing committee on national labor relations was considering proposals to give war workers a pat on the back. "We are of the opinion labor too often is condemned for the action of a very small minority," Chairman Fred Frazer of Wash British Blast Kiel And Berlin i Lubeck Also Hit In Night Attack LONDON, Sept. 16 (AP) More than 800 RAF and C'o'i'd- lan heavy unloaded tons; of explosives and incendiaryj uuraos on xuei, mim ana luu, lives in the hurricane which swept up the Atlantic coast Thursday causing damage estimated between $30,000,000 and in northeastern coastal states.

The tail end of the storm was reported today (Sat) to be blowing across Canadian Maritime provinces and losing its force although causing some damage in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Two deaths were reported today when the bodies of a man and a woman were washed up at Beach Haven, N. to increase New Jersey's hurricane death toll to five. The storm took 15 lives In New England states where extensive property damage occurred in coastal sections. New York's loss of life stood at 17 with one death each for Virginia and North Carolina.

When facilities were disrupted at the Army's Col. Thomas England General Hospital at Atlantic City, more than 1.000 wounded, most from European and Pacific fronts, were evacuated to Halloran General Hospital in New York. Manteo Flooded ELIZABETH CITY. Sept. 16.

(AP) Storm tides reaching 12 inches higher than any in the history of tropical storms on Roanoke Island inundated Manteo to a depth of six feet in Thursday's storm while the wind leveled the plant of the Manteo Shipbuilding engaged in war contracts for the Navy Department, according to the first authentic reports reaching here from the isolated island. The fishing village of Wan- chese, at the south end of the island, had an estimated 1C feet of tide, and the village has been without drinking water since Thursday. Direct communication with Manteo will be reestablished some time today when the first of two freight boats chartered by th3 Virginia Dare Transportation Co. to carry freight and mail to, the bland is expected to dock here. Three thousand feet of the causeway and one bridge linking Roanoke to the highway along Nagf Head were wiped out by storm tides, and it will require several weeks to restore highway traffic to the island.

No start can be made on repairs until the U. S. Engineering Department has re stored service on the bridge over the island waterway at Coinjock 45 miles north of Manteo, which was damaged when a barge escaped its tow tug during the storm. Red Cross On Job Reasons of security" withheld the report of representatives of ber and other building material which he said would obviously be needed. The first concern of the Red Cross was to make some provision fnr ririnkinir water at Wan- day was cancelled when the Coast 'Guard Air Service was "busy with another emergency, the nature and location of which was (Continued on Page Seven) ase Japan spent 25 years build' ing and which is defended by an estimated total of 40,000 Nippon ese.

On Morotai, northeast of Hal-mahera in the Moluccas, where General MacAr-hur landed with his men, he announced today objectives we won in a mat ter of hours. MacArthui put ashore Army engineers with the assault troops end they ate ex pected at any moment to have Pitoe, an unused enemy airfield, ready for powerful aerial blows, Overwhelming air and naval cover at both invasion scenes helped hold down American losses. In a communique last night on the Palau operation, Nimitz said "Our casualties during the first "ay of the assault were lignt, although the landing beaches have teen under sporadic mortal and artillery fire." In the Halmaheras, Richard Bergholz, Associated Press war correspondent reported from Mo-totai there was only one landing casualty -an officer stepped into a deep hole, breaking his leg. By LEWIS HAWKINS LONDON, Sept. 16.

Adolf Hitler declared today that German troops in Finland were unable to clear out by the Sept. 15 deadline and Berlin broadcast indicated fighting already had broken out in Finland between the Germans and Russians. Finland apparently was on the verge of beginning a new war with her erftwhile co-belligerent, Germany, even before formally con cluding peace in her old war with Russia, A special communique from the 0 Germans piniand would Stockholm dispatches reported sions in "fighting their way wav through Finland is pledged by agreement with Russia to use her own troops, with Red army assistance if ne- cessary, to round up Nazi divi- TJm Mr Iiei midnight. TOe broadcast German bulletin that both the Russians and Finns knew Bept 2 when ttey tion of the German divisions that such a movement could not be completed by Sept. 15.

The Germans said 20 to 35 days would have been required for the evacuation. "Fulfillment of this request Is rendered all the more difficult by the fact that the enemy prevented Isengagement of our troops by uninterrupted attacks," he declaration added. "The German army in Finland will therefore also In the time after Sept. 15 be guid ed during all its movements and measures bx the viewpoint of its own security against any aggressors." This challenge followed an abortive German attack uoon the Finnish island of Suursaari (Hog-land) in the Gulf of Finland. (A London broadcast recorded by CBS said the Finnish garrison on the Ahvenanmaa (Aland) islands at the neck of the Gulf of Bothnia "has received reinforcements." The gulf is one of the German escape routes.

(Continued On Page Sevei) in Germany las? night, the great-, continue to "protect their securer part of them going to the nav- ity" against any attackers as Bl base of Kiel where fires still Elore Gas To Sell Allowed Dealers OPA Plan Permits Gallonage Shift CLEVELAND, Sept. 16 0P)- Gasoline dealers will have more fuel to sell after Oct. 1 under an Office of Price Administration plan permitting operators to recover gallonage lost through ac-eptarpo of counterfeit ration coupons prior" to April 1, 1944, an OPA official disclosed last night. James C. Rogers, deputy OPA director, confirmed reports that after Oct.

1 dealers may recover gasoline debited to their accounts prior to April 1, 1944 or the date of their first notice of the debit-: ing plan, whichever is earlier. He explained the original system. which included debits to equal the amount of illegal coupon gallon-age turned in, was deemed "too harsh on the small dealer." Shortly after gasoline rationing started the OPA began charging dealers for counterfeit coupons they turned in, Rogers stated, allowing them a proportionately less amount of gasoline each month. This practice, he said, nearly drove some individual operators out of business. KnnnlriPred from an attack ear- apparently was mov-Hnoulaered from attacK ear- tQward decIaratlon of war jier In the weei by the U.

S. 0n Gptmany. Eighth Air Force. Berlin broadcasts sard 'German iues spieng up In Berlin, detaching movements were being weather today gave carried out in Finland despite HT i 1 Russian efforts to Interfere, promise of a resumption of grand, A BriUsh broadcast rec0rded by scale Allied air attacks. The Ger-1 owl said the Russians already man radio Interrupted morning have encircled two German divi- programs and reported that fight-1 er formations wtre penetrating to tentral Germany.

The bombers which attacked Kiel set fires which were visible1 Maginot Line Sector Captured Brest Is Reported Taken By Allies By JAMES M. LONG LONDON, Sept. 16. (AP) TJ. S.

troops have made several penetrations completely through the Siegfried line below Aachen, putting that whole defense system in and thrust as deep as 12 miles into Germany, front dispatches announced tonight. Patrols entered the fortress city of Aachen itself. To the south on French soil. Third Army troops captured part of the Maginot line on the west bank of the Moselle before Thion-ville, and turned the German-installed Krupps 105-mm. guns on the Nazis in an offenseive which further threatened the fortress of Metz to the south.

Brest Reported Taken Paris radio declared Brest, big Atlantic port on the tip of Brittany, had been captured with 12,000 prisoners. Berlin broadcasts suggested an American breakthrough was near-ing the Rhine east of Nancy. A new crossing of the Reich frontier sent the U. S. First Army into a four-pronged Invasion of Hitler's home doanf.

Supreme headquarters late today declared the Siegfried line had been completely penetrated by forward elements, and an Associated Press dispatch a few hours later said there were several penetrations south of Aachen "to points beyond the line's last fixed fortifications." Tanks were beating forward east of surround, ed Aachen, it added. Complete penetration means that troops have gone through the whole previously-prepareu But headquarters stressed that this did not necessarily mean a 1, breakthrough of the vauntea Siegfried deienses rtaa coriiplished, lh5ugh it Vug-sestet such. -T fact. break thirush nnt re.earded as achieved unuil the breach has been sufficiently exploited so more troops can be Doured through freely, pi eventing fmr ceniino- off the gap by hurling in mobile reserve forces. Four Invasions Developing The thrust through a 10 mile-wide breach beyond Aachen was one of four developing invasions of the Reich.

The Berlin radio meanwhile indicated a breakthrough approaching the Rhine 150 miles to the south in France. The Siegfried line was completely penetrated by First Army elements just 24 hours after Courtney H. Hodges' force3 battered into its outer defenses, headquarters said. The drive carried the hard-hitting First Army onto a super, 80- mile-an-nour speeaway un mo last 30 miles to Cologne and the Rhine a speedway built by Hit ier to invade the west ana now likely to be used against him. Aachen itself once the capital of Charlemange's empire of the west and keystone of the whoie northern arc of the Siegfried line appeared to be toppling.

The by-passed fortress town was held in a tightening American ring of fought their way in had been re pulsed. To the north, Americans swept on through slight German resistance beyond liberated Maastricht in Holland, and Berlin said the First Army had broadened us fvnnt. nnrt.h to Mechelen. eight miles above Maastricht, and driven across the Meuse-Schci-ule canal "in force." Besides their power drive beyond encircled Aachen, a Siegfried fortress, American First Army men deepened two otner wedges into the fortification system, and made a fourth crossina of the Reich's frontier. The front at Aachen was widened to 15 miles with capture of Lammersdorf to the southeast, German broadcasts reported street fighting in Aachen.

Approaching Rhine Berlin radio indicated the U. S. Third Army sweep east of Nancy to the south was approaching the Rhine. "A fluctuating battle" is on in the eastern Vosges mountains which come down to the Rhine, it declared. A front dispatch last night said resistance far beyond Nancy into the Vosges toward the German border, 50 to 70 miles away, was scattered only after a scissors attack had caved in the whole south, end of the Germans' Moselle line.

The armared dirve of the Third was under way asain, it said, and soon had pushed 10 to 13 miles beyond Nancy. The fourth crossing of the German frontier came 63 miles below Aachen, and about midway between the thrusts alreadj denting Nazi fortifications near Trier and Prum. Grand Allied Drive Supreme headquarters declared a grand Allied drive was beating eastward along a curving 500-mile front from the Swiss frontier south of Belfort to the channel coast around the Schelde Estuary near the Dutch border Restraining Order DURHAM, Sept. 16. OT Operators of Durham's nine tobacco warehouses today obtained a temporary order from Superior Judge Luther Hamilton restraining buying companies from withdrawing buyers from this market, which opens Thursday.

The buying companies, Including Liggett and Myers, Reynolds and American, allegedly threatened to withdraw one set, leaving the market with only two. Hearing was set for October 4 here. The operators also are trying to boost the selling hours to 14. instead of the 10 1-2 agreed upon by the buyers several days ago. Formerly, selling hours here were 18 a day with three sets, giving: each six hours.

iegfried Line Completely Cut 24-Hour Advance Nets Huge Gains Supreme Heaquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. Sept. Germany's Siegfried line had been "completely penetrated" 24 hours after the American First army battered into its outer defenses, headquarters announced Aacnen, pernaps iougni us av uuo tne clly' anQ staooet- on six miles or more east. "eaaquaners empnasize I. ever, that this did not nst essarily riifcn that a breakthtouph had hpen accomplished.

But it strongly tuggested that ore was There Is this difference: compute penatration mears troous have gone through the wh.e previously prepared fortified A breakthrough, on the other hand, is not regarded as accomplished until that breach has been exploited to the extent where troops can pour through freely, preventing the enemy from sealing off the gap by hurling mobile forces into the area Immediately behind. lor 100 miles. In addition the RAF hit objec- lives in Berlin for the fifth night to a row and car.ied out what was Sffclally described as an "exten-lth las' The Unid SUte mUta stafhe American Red who were brought here a minutely woven om the Btomjtottercd X'r-cSoTWSSrSS. ESE5 SiHXt an- ahZP infnt PSf other representative who arrived JLiSS pJiillw today was busy with a sur-staffs, and cemented at the Pearlj avaiIable suppnes lum He indicated the new plan today, would permit the OPA to "allevi-j This meant, it was said specif i-ate the plight of the honest andally, that the advance forces of conscientious operator," while at1 the First Army had burst througlj the same time continuing the, the Oine in its drive whii ringed Harbor conference between President Roosever, and General Douglas MacArtl'ur of the Southwest Pacific command and Ad miral Chester Nimitz, command er of the PacifiD fleet. It was in chese, where the usual supply is operation before the conference rainwater stored in ground-levci began, as evidenced by MacAr- cisterns.

These were flooded by thur's invasion rf Palau and Mo- sait tide water, total islands on the way to the planned return of these repre-Philippmes, command problems sentatives to Roanoke Island to- ington D. said. "We are iron. German broadcasts trying to frame a resolution com-led fighting insiae the city, but iv, i claimed the troops that THE WAR TODAY BY DEWITT MACKENZIE ne operation. no fcrther details 'vere given.

A to- of 11 British and Canadian planes were lost. U. S. Ninth Air Force Thunderbolts flew 363 sorties in spite Df rainy weather yesterday and destroyed 441 tracks and 10 armored vehicles, end damaged or destroyed 125 ra lway cars, 17 loc omotives and 15 artillery pieces hetween Strasbourg and Cologne. Thunderbolts also sank a barge and blew up a fuel dump and made attacks in the Third Army's battle area in the Nancy Metz leeion.

One Thunderbolt was lost. The pilots met no enemy fighters. 3 Spitfires patrolling over hoi- fcnd last niglr smashed at a concentration of barges near yeere. Rocker Typhoons and bomb-carrying Spitfirrs of the Second Tactical Air provided close support for ground forces in going after selected targets at Dun-kerque. The Berlin radio said German guns shot down two Lancasters vhich attacked a naval strong-point in Northern Norway.

The a lanes came from Russian bases, hp report added, and claimed al-t to that two more planes were brought down rft the east coast of Northern Norway. The Mediterranean Allied Air Forces flew about 1,300 sorties and lost five planes yesterday in attacks on airdromes in tni An-thens area, a submarine base at Salamis and over the battle areas in the Balkans and Italy. In the attack on the Salamis case bombers set fire to a de- strover of the Turino class and torpedoboat of the Solf erino class and heavily damaged the harbor installations and a muni- tions factory. Motored German JU-52 transport pjes were destroyed in th blng in the Athens area, i Red Patrols Cross Vistula; German Attack Hurled Back By J. M.

ROBERTS, JR. (Substituting for DeWitt Mackenzie) Emphasis on the Pacific war at the Quebec conference has led ta speculation about a supreme commander for the final haymaker against Japan. From London comes the suggestion that Roosevelt and Churchill may have picked Eisenhower. Namitz, MacArthur. Stilwsll and others are mentioned.

Mount- batten, already boss In the Chira comes for Joint British-American- Chinese operations in real force were settled in advance. 2. From the minute that Eden trrived, the occupation and- de militarization of Germany and related European economic problems took precedence In the informal exchangr between Roosevelt and ChurchiU, as distinguished from those of the strictly military men. Ehis European emphasis was further stressed by the arrial of Sir Alexander Cadogan, perman- (Continued On Page Seven) blazing, smoking city of Warsaw was In full view of the Russian forces on the banks of the Vistula were shattered and where the flames and smoke were not billow- inn the buildings looked gutted and ruined. Reconnaissance disclosed that ea army aruiiery ana air power hoH ll.tn XT tf west of the Vistula and the, nri DUQinB Warsaw.

Meanwhile there was reason 118 ing was breaking out many new sectors of the eastern front, with the Initiative completely with the Red army. Preparations were said to De, Political Battle In Texas Goes To State High Court AUSTIN, Sept. 16. (P) that the May 23 electors, and only Texas' raucous battle over Demo- i that group, should be placed upon cratic electors headed toward the the official ballot "as the candi-court room today. dates for Presidential electors of Fought fiercely in two political the Democratic party." forums, the elector struggle will I of this group 15 have an-be taken to the State Supreme1 nouncec: pians to vote in the elec-Court where Roosevelt forces will, toral college, if elected, for Sen.

seek recognition of Roosevelt- Harrv F. Bvrd or some other De- By EDDY GILMORE I MOSCOW, Sept. 16. (P) Red I army patrols have crossed the Vis- prosecute flagrant and obvious! violators. The new plan also includes ai future tnlM-anrp nf nno nor e.mt of total gallonage each month, to 'over possible debits, or up to hree per cent of total gallonage in any one month plus one sub- sequent month to cover debits that might exceed the one per cent, Rogers said.

Arthur will find a major Job for him.se'f in Manna, pernapg simv lar to but even more Importint than the one ht had before th3 war. There is "me reasoi to he wants it that way Stilwell hus teen lt'to the d.scussion t'nougb his rece 't promotion to full general. But he hardly seems to have the experience for a great amphibious operation, and fits most perfectly as co-ordinator of our military interests with the Chinese. It is no secret that things are not too smooth In Mountbatten's command. For some reason he has lost the glamour he once had as the royal chief commando.

It 1 a iliaJ -I-. I 11,11 III LI IV. 1UI1K-UCI III A111CU Ulttll. interfered with delivery of tne; strength originally intended for nun couia iook Detter Dy tne and the spectacular Job with Mac- Arthur is yet to do, the rising fig- me rat ine is inai; oi imi mite. When all the Allied forces have been gathered for the fina' blow at Nippon the situation may require a general.

But until then, or for any possible direct attack against Japan except from China, Admiral Nimitz, who in effect already commands a great land, sea and air army, would seem to be headed for an ever-Increasing role. be tula from captured Praga and from Praga to Moscow showed Burma-India theater would ap-scouted German positions at War- at Praga. pear casually to be a candidate, saw while Russian and Polish! First photographs flown back, But we don't know what the sit-troops hurled back the first big that many of Warsaw's buildings I uation will be when the tin-e adhered to the no-strike RACE NARROWED RALEIGH, Sept. 16 (JO The 1945 speakership race narrowed to two candidates today with Oscar Barker's formal announce ment from Durham that he had withdrawn and an authentic report here that A. B.

Stoney of Burke had pledged his support to Oscar Richardson of Union County. mocrat other than President Ro0sevelt. of (UUIUCI LllUlf lb IS IlCCCoottlV LU make the sample ballot not later either way he himself ruled, he made the decision according to the law as he saw it. "Arguments that have been presented to be with respect to the political effects of my action are wholly Irrelevant to my administrative duty," he said. Latham had pondered a decision since a delegation from the Dallas convention arrived at his office with the new electors list Nazi armored attack upon their positions in the east bank suburb, field dispatches said today.

Eleven localities north of Praga were declared seized by Russian! and Polish units, Increasing the (I omit Russia because, on the seems uwi-c un.cjy mc uicu basis of present information, Italian campaign which bore cer-: rinn't think RuisU will bp in I taln earmarks of improvisation hw i. for 'as compared with other operations iruman pieuscu cicia named at the Sept. 12 state con- vention in Dallas where they, wrested control of the party ma-! PH nPfV. I The reason for the suit was a JrTm alOOard's'trn, rTtw-n th7l uA.m awtt xi. ni-ilJ i PV.

ZTSM ish 'or I Malaya, the Indies and China, rni nrhon t.hp rfmverp wou'd decision by Secretary of State than Sept. 25 and because the Sidney Latham, announced jss-i time element was so important terday, to certify for the general he did not seek an opinion from election ballot the electors named the attorney general on the elec-at a May 23 convention in Austin tor situation. when anti-Roosevelt forces con-, i. t. and over-al) command seem ivjtlm.e the narrowed to China dicated.

By then we may have, and Japan, seen new men emerge, or o'd men I But right now, with all due cre-who have gained experience, in dit to the achievements of others have broueht back information' on the disposition of Nazi defenses in the besieged Polish capital, but Moscow had no Information on whether a crossing had been accomplished In force. The army newspaper Red Star said the Germans sent numerous tanks and self-propelled guns to aid their troops between the Vistula and the western Bug. "but nothing helped." Tank warfare In the Praga sector is becoming the most severe of the entire war iost of the 110 tanks which the midnight Russian communique reported destroyed were in the Praga The Red Sti dispatch said the Tnese were included in the total of 77 grounded aircraft destroyed, 20 damaed and two badly damaged. SEVEN POLIO CASES RALEIGH. Sept.

16 (Seven new cases of infantile paralysis were reported today to the dLstate Board of Health, bringing the total since June 1 to 703. Northampton reported its first case. Others, reporting one new cuse each, were Caswell, For-' Syih. Moore. New Hanover, Rutherford and Vance.

1 complete for the Russians' au-ious commanders mentioned: tumn and winter campaign. It; There is hope but no surety that was believed to be only a matter Eisenhower can be released from of days before German forces I r.urore soon. Thf Pacific offen-from Finland to wllLsive is not waiting bvsis It bear the brunt of drives by veter- is definitely uner way and calls new places. But as for the situation now regarding tne avauaDiiiiy oi 'or a type of wtriare lar difiec- degree of organizing ability. There are int'icalions that Ma trolled the party's state organiz ation.

Announcing that a suit would filed Harry L. Seay, newly elected chairman of the state Democratic executive committee asserted: "We are terribly disappointed. We can't for the life of us understand whv a public official would fail to follow the mandate of the Democratic party." Latham said it was his consi dered opinion, after much study, an Russian armies refreshed ana eflger to march into the Reich, ent rrom tha fo which Eisen-Mnscow renorts said the Soviet, hower has devoled such a high were particularly eager to resume their Baltic campaign. 1 Thursday. (Continued on Page Seven).